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Maputo #5

1993

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A painting consisting of acrylic paint on formed and shaped rag paper, mounted on plastic. Forming a rough "V" shape, the work combines a red rectangle for the right-hand upright section, and a curved black oval with green and yellow for the left-hand upright section. At the juncture between the two are a cluster of curvilinear forms in solid and mottled shades of red, brown, green and yellow, extending up the two uprights.

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Catalog reference: 2011.37.2

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