Artist Monograph

Blinky Palermo, German

German, 1943–1977

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Screenprint	19	41.3%
Lithography	12	26.1%
Other Media	5	10.9%
Gouache	5	10.9%
Oil Painting	2	4.3%
Watercolor	1	2.2%
Sculpture	1	2.2%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	43	93.5%
Painting & Sculpture	3	6.5%

Classification Types

Print — 32
Drawing — 9
Painting — 3
Illustrated Book — 2

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	16	36.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)	27	61.4%
Large (1–3 m)	1	2.3%

Range: 7.3 cm → 200.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1972	1
1973	4
1974	5
1979	19
1983	1
1985	1
1987	1
1988	1
1991	1
1992	1
1993	1
1997	1
1999	1
2005	6
2010	1
2022	1

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 46 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2640.2005	1965	Pencil and watercolor on notebook paper	5 3/4 x 4" (14.6 x 10.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Painting Acc. 309.1992	1968	Oil, black chalk, and pencil on canvas	17 3/4 x 37 1/2" (45.1 x 95.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of UBS
Blue Triangle (Blaues Dreieck) Drawing Acc. 2641.2005.2	1969	Gouache on paper	19 x 21" (48.3 x 53.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Blue Triangle (Blaues Dreieck) Drawing Acc. 2641.2005.1	1969	Stenciled gouache on wall	stenciled composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 × 18" (23.2 × 45.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Blue Triangle (Blaues Dreieck) Drawing Acc. 2641.2005.1-2	1969		⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Untitled Drawing Acc. 49.1988	1969	Gouache on paper	6 5/8 x 9 1/4" (16.3 x 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
12 Original Lithographs (for the 1968 exhibition "Wall Drawings" at Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich) Print Acc. 1085.1979.1-12	1970	Portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition (see child records): dimensions vary; sheet (each approx.): 20 1/16 × 19 3/16" (51 × 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
4 Prototypes (4 Prototypen) Print Acc. 10.1974.1-4	1970	Portfolio of four screenprints	composition: various; sheet (each): 23 5/8 x 23 5/8" (60 x 60 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Black box (Schwarzer kasten) from En Bloc Print Acc. 167.1985.10	1970	Wood box covered with painted canvas	overall: 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 1 15/16" (15 x 15 x 5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Christopher Gray
Flipper Print Acc. 121.1993.a-b	1970	Screenprint on two sheets	composition (each approx.): 31 1/2 x 23 5/8" (80 x 60 cm); sheet (each): 33 3/4 x 25 15/16" (85 x 65.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Walter Bareiss Fund and Sarah C. Epstein Fund
I from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.1	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 6 1/2 x 18" (16.5 x 45.7 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 3/16" (51 x 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
II from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.2	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 13/16 x 8 1/16" (40.2 x 20.4 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 3/16" (51 x 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
III from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.3	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	Composition: 15 13/16 x 7 15/16" (40.2 x 20.2 cm) Sheet: 19 11/16 x 19 3/16" (50 x 48.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
IV from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.4	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 13/16 x 7 15/16" (40.2 x 20.2 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 19 3/16" (50 x 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
IX from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.9	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 7/8 x 15 13/16" (40.3 x 40.2 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 3/16" (51 x 48.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Stairwell ( Treppenhaus ) Print Acc. 20.1972	1970	Screenprint	composition: 15 15/16 x 37 1/2" (40.5 x 95.2 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 39 3/8" (60 x 100 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn
Untitled Painting Acc. 650.1997	1970	Dyed cotton mounted on muslin	6' 6 3/4" x 6' 6 3/4" (200 x 200 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Untitled from the portfolio 4 Prototypes (4 Prototypen) Print Acc. 10.1974.1	1970	One from a portfolio of four screenprints	composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 x 18 1/8" (23.2 x 46 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 23 5/8" (60 x 60 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from the portfolio 4 Prototypes (4 Prototypen) Print Acc. 10.1974.2	1970	One from a portfolio of four screenprints	composition (irreg.): 5 1/4 x 10 7/16" (13.3 x 26.5 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 23 5/8" (60 x 60 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from the portfolio 4 Prototypes (4 Prototypen) Print Acc. 10.1974.3	1970	One from a portfolio of four screenprints	composition (irreg.): 6 x 6" (15.2 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 23 5/8 x 23 5/8" (60 x 60 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from the portfolio 4 Prototypes (4 Prototypen) Print Acc. 10.1974.4	1970	One from a portfolio of four screenprints	composition (irreg.): 14 1/2 x 19 5/16" (36.8 x 49 cm); sheet: 23 9/16 x 23 5/8" (59.8 x 60 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
VI from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.6	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 13/16 x 8 1/16" (40.1 x 20.4 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 1/8" (51 x 48.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
VII from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.7	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 13/16 x 8" (40.2 x 20.3 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 1/8" (51 x 48.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
VIII from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.8	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 15/16 x 8" (40.5 x 20.3 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 19 3/16" (50 x 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
X from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.10	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 15 7/8 x 15 13/16" (40.4 x 40.2 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 3/16" (51 x 48.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
XI from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.11	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 7 15/16 x 8 1/16" (20.2 x 20.5 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 x 19 3/16" (50 x 48.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
XII from 12 Original Lithographs Print Acc. 1085.1979.12	1970	One from a portfolio of twelve lithographs	composition: 8 x 7 7/8" (20.3 x 20 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 19 5/16" (51 x 49 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Entwurf für Graphik zur Wandmalerei, Bremerhaven Drawing Acc. 2642.2005	1971	Gouache, pencil, and ballpoint pen on paper	34 x 23 3/4" (86.4 x 60.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Olive/Silver Print Acc. 1086.1979	1971	Screenprint	composition: 25 13/16 x 22 11/16" (65.6 x 57.6 cm); sheet: 28 3/4 x 25 3/4" (73 x 65.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled Drawing Acc. 659.1983	1971	Crayon on sandpaper with gouache on printed paper	17 3/8 x 10 1/2" (44 x 26.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled Drawing Acc. 2643.2005	1971	Envelope on paper	26 3/4 x 19" (67.9 x 48.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift
Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.1-5	1972	Portfolio of five screenprints	composition: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16" (7.3 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled from the portfolio Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.1	1972	Screenprint	composition: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16" (7.3 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled from the portfolio Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.2	1972	Screenprint	composition: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16" (7.3 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled from the portfolio Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.3	1972	Screenprint	composition (irreg.): 5 7/8 x 1 7/16" (14.9 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled from the portfolio Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.4	1972	Screenprint	composition: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16" (7.3 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Untitled from the portfolio Miniatures Print Acc. 1087.1979.5	1972	Screenprint	composition: 2 7/8 x 1 7/16" (7.3 x 3.7 cm); sheet: 15 3/4 x 10 5/8" (40 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman Fund
Box catalogue for the exhibition PALERMO [Objects] at the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany, January 22 – February 25, 1973 Illustrated Book Acc. 524.2022.18	1973	Cardboard box containing thirty-four individual cards	Box: 7 7/8 × 6 5/16 × 1 1/8" (20 × 16 × 2.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Helen and Sam Zell
Untitled Print Acc. 378.1973.1-3	1973	Portfolio of two lithographs and a screenprint	sheet (each approx.): 19 11/16 × 13 13/16" (50 × 35.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from an untitled portfolio Print Acc. 378.1973.1	1973	Lithograph from a portfolio with two lithographs and one screenprint	composition (irreg.): 16 11/16 × 7 3/4" (42.4 × 19.7 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 × 13 13/16" (50 × 35.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from an untitled portfolio Print Acc. 378.1973.2	1973	Lithograph from a portfolio with two lithographs and one screenprint	composition: 2 9/16 × 5 3/16" (6.5 × 13.2 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 × 13 13/16" (50 × 35.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from an untitled portfolio Print Acc. 378.1973.3	1973	Screenprint from a portfolio with two lithographs and one screenprint	composition: 19 11/16 × 13 13/16" (50 × 35.1 cm); heet: 19 11/16 × 13 13/16" (50 × 35.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Cosmopolitan Arts Foundation
Untitled from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Print Acc. 22.1987.65	1974, published 1975	Lithograph from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts	plate: 18 7/8 x 13 5/16" (47.9 x 33.8cm); sheet: 26 x 19 5/8" (66 x 49.8cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)
4 White Forms Painting Acc. 83.2010.a-d	1975	Synthetic polymer paint on aluminum, four panels	Each 10 1/2 x 8 1/2" (26.7 x 21.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund (by exchange)
Palermo, catalogue from Beitrag der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zur Biennale São Paulo Illustrated Book Acc. 446.1999.2	1975	Exhibition catalogue	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Linda Barth Goldstein Fund
Untitled Drawing Acc. 357.1991.a-g	1976	Oil on notebook paper with pencil on board	11 3/4 x 8 1/4" (29.9 x 21 cm) (each) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Learsy Family