Czarna

Contemporary Art

1966

Magdalena Abakanowicz
Polish, 1930-2017

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Magdalena Abakanowicz
Title: Czarna
Place: Warsaw (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1966
Medium: Sisal, rope and horsehair
Dimensions: 300 × 156 cm (118 1/8 × 61 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation
Reference Number: 2022.1496

Felix Andreas Baumann, Abakanowicz: Eine Polnische Textilküntlerin, exh. cat. (Zürich: Helmhaus, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, 1968), 12, cat. 17, as Czarna, 1967.
Ann Coxon and Mary Jane Jacob, eds., Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, (London: Tate Modern , 2022), 39, 41, 68, 56–57 (color ills.), 205.
Laura Cumming, “Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope review – a wonder weaver,” The Observer, Nov. 20, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/20/magdalena-abakanowicz-tate-modern-london-review-every-tangle-of-thread-and-rope?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Rowan Beaird, “The Curatorial Threads of Mary Jane Jacob,” School of the Art Institute News, Jan. 2023, n.p. (color ill.), https://www.saic.edu/news/the-curatorial-threads-of-professor-mary-jane-jacob

Lausanne, Switzerland, Galerie Alice Pauli, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Tapisseries, June 14–Aug. 19, 1967, cat. 3.
Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Abakanowicz: Eine Polnische Textilküntlerin, Aug. 10–Sept. 8, 1968, cat. 17, as Czarna, 1967
San Francisco, Lebreton Gallery, Fog Design Art 2015, Jan. 14–18, 2015, no cat.
London, Marlborough Gallery, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Corporeal Materiality, Nov. 12–Dec. 21, 2019, no cat.
London, Tate Modern, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, Nov. 17, 2022–May 21, 2023, no cat. no.; Fondation Toms Pauli at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne as Magdalena Abakanowicz: Textiles Territories, June 23–Sept. 24, 2023; Høvikodden, Norway, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oct. 26, 2023–Feb. 25, 2024 (as Black).

The artist; sold through Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland, to private collection, Lausanne, by 1968 [Zurich 1968]; sold, Galartis, Crissier, Switzerland, Dec. 8, 2012, lot 760, to Lebreton Gallery (Karim Mehanna), San Francisco; private collection, Monaco [correspondence from Lebreton Gallery, Mar. 25, 2019; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Marlborough Gallery, New York, Aug. 1, 2019 [Marlborough Gallery invoice, Aug. 1, 2019; copy in curatorial object file]; offered to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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