Artist Monograph

Álvaro Barrios, Colombian

Colombian, born 1945

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	31	70.5%
Printmaking	6	13.6%
Digital Art	4	9.1%
Other Media	3	6.8%

Production by Decade

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	16	38.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	26	61.9%

Range: 14.5 cm → 74.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
2005	34
2006	2
2007	7
2009	1

Colombian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 44 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Popular Print for the 9th Biennial of Tokyo, published in Diario del Caribe, October 3, 1974 (Grabado popular impreso para la IX Bienal de Grabados de Tokyo, publicado en Diario del Caribe, 3 de octubre de 1974) Print Acc. 509.2005.1	1974	Offset lithograph on newsprint	composition: 19 7/8 x 13 1/4" (50.5 x 33.7 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 11/16 x 29" (57.7 x 73.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the 9th Biennial of Tokyo, published in Diario del Caribe, October 3, 1974 (Grabado popular impreso para la IX Bienal de Grabados de Tokyo, publicado en Diario del Caribe, 3 de octubre de 1974) Print Acc. 509.2005.2	1974	Offset lithograph on newsprint	composition: 19 7/8 x 13 1/4" (50.5 x 33.7 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 11/16 x 29" (57.7 x 73.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the 9th Biennial of Tokyo, published in Diario del Caribe, October 3, 1974 (Grabado popular impreso para la IX Bienal de Grabados de Tokyo, publicado en Diario del Caribe, 3 de octubre de 1974) Print Acc. 509.2005.3	1974	Offset lithograph on newsprint	composition: 19 7/8 x 13 1/4" (50.5 x 33.7 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 11/16 x 29" (57.7 x 73.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the 9th Biennial of Tokyo, published in Diario del Caribe, October 3, 1974 (Grabado popular impreso para la IX Bienal de Grabados de Tokyo, publicado en Diario del Caribe, 3 de octubre de 1974) Print Acc. 509.2005.1-3	1974	Three offset lithographs on newsprint	composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each, unfolded): 22 11/16 x 29" (57.7 x 73.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print (Grabado popular) Print Acc. 510.2005	1975	Photolithograph	sheet (folded): 10 5/8 x 17 1/8" (27 x 43.5 cm); sheet (unfolded): 10 5/8 x 34 1/4" (27 x 87 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the 6th International Print Biennial in Krakow, published in El Heraldo, February 20, 1976 (Grabado popular impreso para la VI Bienal Internacional de Grabado de Cracovia, publicado en El Heraldo, 20 de febrero de 1976) Print Acc. 512.2005	1976	Offset lithograph on newsprint	composition: 10 15/16 x 13 7/8" (27.8 x 35.2 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 13/16 x 30" (58 x 76.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the Exhibition "Latin America 76" Fundación Joan Miró, Spain Print Acc. 511.2005	1976	Photolithograph	composition and sheet: 10 1/2 x 8 9/16" (26.7 x 21.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the Third American Biennial of Graphic Arts in Cali, published in Bandera de El Pueblo, May 6, 1976 (Grabado popular impreso para la III Bienal Americana de Artes Gráficas de Cali, publicado en El Pueblo, 6 de mayo de 1976) Print Acc. 513.2005	1976	Offset lithograph on newsprint	sheet (folded): 22 13/16 x 14 5/16" (58 x 36.3 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 13/16 x 30 3/16" (58 x 76.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 514.2005	1977	Line block	Sheet: 11 x 17 15/16" (28 x 44 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Sketch for Saint Sebastian Tied Down to the Column of the Stars" Print Acc. 516.2005	1977	Photolithograph	sheet: 13 3/8 x 18 7/8" (34 x 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá Print Acc. 515.2005	1977	Photolithograph	Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 7/16" (38 x 29 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 518.2005.1	1978	Three photolithographs	Sheet: 22 13/16 x 29 1/8" (58 x 74 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 518.2005.2	1978	Three photolithographs	Sheet: 22 13/16 x 29 1/8" (58 x 74 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 518.2005.3	1978	Three photolithographs	Sheet: 22 13/16 x 29 1/8" (58 x 74 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 518.2005.1-3	1978	Three photolithographs	Sheet: 22 13/16 x 29 1/8" (58 x 74 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Dreams about Marcel Duchamp" Print Acc. 517.2005	1978	Photolithograph	composition: 10 1/16 x 13 11/16" (25.5 x 34.8 cm); sheet (folded): 11 3/8 x 14 1/2" (28.9 x 36.8 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 3/4 x 14 1/2" (57.8 x 36.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Álvaro Barrios as Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy as L.H.O.O.Q. Print Acc. 477.2006.1-3	1980–2006	Three digital prints with rubber stamp additions	composition (irreg.): 11 15/16 x 7 3/4" (30.3 x 19.7 cm); sheet (each): 18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Álvaro Barrios as Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Sélavy as L.H.O.O.Q. from Mundo Print Acc. 92.2007.2	1980-2006	Digital print with rubber stamp additions from the magazine Mundo	composition (irreg.): 8 3/4 x 6 13/16" (22.3 x 17.3 cm); sheet: 12 5/8 x 8 9/16" (32 x 21.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Mundo Illustrated Book Acc. 92.2007.1-2	1980-06	Magazine with one loose digital print with rubber stamp additions	overall: 12 5/8 x 9 1/8" (32 x 23.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" Print Acc. 520.2005.1-6	1980	Six photolithographs	Sheet: (each) 11 x 8 1/4" (28 x 21 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.1	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.2	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.3	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.4	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.5	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp") Print Acc. 519.2005.6	1980	Offset lithograph with pencil additions	composition: 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet: 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición "Sueños con Marcel Duchamp"), Popular Print for the exhibition "Dreams About Marcel Duchamp"" (Grabado popular impreso para la exhibición ""Sueños con Marcel Duchamp"")" Print Acc. 519.2005.1-6	1980	Six offset lithographs with pencil additions	composition (each): 7 5/8 x 10 3/16" (19.4 x 25.8 cm); sheet (each): 8 3/8 x 10 7/8" (21.2 x 27.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Arrival of the Arensberg Collection in Venice" Print Acc. 521.2005	1981	Photolithograph	Sheet: 22 13/16 x 28 3/4" (58 x 73 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print Print Acc. 522.2005	1983	Photolithograph	Sheet: 11 7/16 x 14" (29 x 35.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the Triennial of Graphic Art in Berlin "Integrafik 84" Print Acc. 523.2005	1983	Photolithograph	composition: 9 15/16 x 13 3/16" (25.3 x 33.5 cm); sheet (folded): 22 13/16 x 14" (58 x 35.6 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 13/16 x 28 1/16" (58 x 71.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Allegory of Peace" Print Acc. 524.2005	1984	Photolithograph	composition: 7 3/16 x 8 7/16" (18.2 x 21.4 cm); sheet (folded): 22 13/16 x 14 1/16" (58 x 35.7 cm); sheet (unfolded): 22 13/16 x 27 15/16" (58 x 71 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the Exhibition "Obra Grafica de Álvaro Barrios" Print Acc. 525.2005	1987	Photolithograph	Sheet: 14 1/16 x 22 11/16" (35.7 x 57.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Le Baiser Matinal" Print Acc. 526.2005.1	1997	Two photostatic prints	Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/16" (24.5 x 33.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Le Baiser Matinal" Print Acc. 526.2005.2	1997	Two photostatic prints	Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/16" (24.5 x 33.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print "Le Baiser Matinal" Print Acc. 526.2005.1-2	1997	Two photostatic prints	Sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 3/16" (24.5 x 33.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the First International Art Biennial of Buenos Aires Print Acc. 527.2005.1-20	2000	Twenty photolithographs	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Popular Print for the First Poligraphic Triennial of San Juan: Latin America & the Caribbean Print Acc. 528.2005.1-26	2004	Twenty-six photolithographs	Sheet: (each) 12 3/16 x 20 7/8" (31 x 53 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Álvaro Barrios: Apropiaciones y Grabados Populares Illustrated Book Acc. 93.2007.1-2	2006	Exhibition catalogue with one loose editioned print	overall: 11 x 8 7/16" (27.9 x 21.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Álvaro Barrios: Apropiaciones y Grabados Populares Illustrated Book Acc. 93.2007.1	2006	Exhibition catalogue	overall: 11 x 8 7/16" (27.9 x 21.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Mundo Illustrated Book Acc. 92.2007.1	October 12, 2006	Magazine with one loose digital print with rubber stamp additions	overall: 12 5/8 x 9 1/8" (32 x 23.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Untitled Print Acc. 94.2007.1-5	2006	Five postcards	composition (each) and sheet: 4 5/16 x 5 11/16" (11 x 14.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Untitled (magazine insert for Periódico Arteria) Print Acc. 478.2006	2006	Offset lithograph	composition: 6 15/16 x 9 9/16" (17.6 x 24.3 cm); page: 16 7/8 x 10 7/8" (42.8 x 27.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Untitled from Álvaro Barrios: Apropiaciones y Grabados Populares Print Acc. 93.2007.2	2006	Loose offset print from an exhibition catalogue	composition: 8 1/4 x 16" (21 x 40.6 cm); sheet: 11 x 16 9/16" (27.9 x 42 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Untitled Popular Print for The Village Voice Print Acc. 2.2009.x1-x2	2008	Offset on newsprint	composition: 4 13/16 x 8 1/16" (12.2 x 20.4 cm); sheet (folded): 12 x 10 3/8" (30.5 x 26.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Anonymous gift