Artist Monograph

Giò Pomodoro, Italian

Italian, 1930–2002

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	17	85%
Etching	2	10%
Watercolor	1	5%

Classification Types

Print — 17
Illustrated Book — 2
Drawing — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	10%
Medium (30–100 cm)	17	85%
Large (1–3 m)	1	5%

Range: 14.4 cm → 105.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1964	1
1966	1
1968	1
1974	17

Italian Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 20 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Plate 14 from l'Avanguardia Internazionale, Volume 4/l'Avant-Garde Internationale, Volume 4/The International Avant-Garde, Volume 4 Illustrated Book Acc. 803.1963.14	1960, published 1962	Etching and drypoint	plate: 5 11/16 × 4 1/2" (14.4 × 11.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Peter H. Deitsch
4 Studies Drawing Acc. 497.1966	1963	Watercolor and ink on paper	19 3/4 x 22" (49.9 x 55.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Mr. and Mrs. E. Powis Jones Fund
Out-In Print Acc. 1729.1967	1965	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 20 3/8 × 28 9/16" (51.7 × 72.5 cm); sheet: 22 3/8 × 30" (56.9 × 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 Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Plate (pages 63) from L'albero poeta Illustrated Book Acc. 93.1968.10	1966. (Print executed 1965).	Soft ground etching and collagraph from an illustrated book with ten prints	plate: 10 1/2 × 7 3/8" (26.7 × 18.8 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 × 9 13/16" (41 × 25 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Monroe Wheeler Fund
Black Seal from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2048.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 22 3/8 × 22 5/16" (56.9 × 56.7 cm); sheet: 30 1/16 × 22 5/16" (76.4 × 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Blue Seal I from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 937.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 3/8" (76.5 × 56.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Blue Seal II from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2052.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 3/16 × 22 3/16" (76.7 × 56.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Double Green Seal from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2051.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 3/16 × 22 3/8" (76.7 × 56.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Double Pink Seal from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 936.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 3/16 × 22 5/16" (76.6 × 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Double Red Spiral Print Acc. 941.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 3/8" (76.5 × 56.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Four Circles I from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 943.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 5/16" (76.5 × 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Four Circles II from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 944.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 22 1/16 × 29 5/8" (56.1 × 75.3 cm); sheet: 22 1/16 × 30 1/8" (56.1 × 76.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Four Squares from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 940.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/16 × 22 5/16" (76.3 × 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
History of Five Squares from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 942.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition (overall): 41 5/8 × 30 1/4" (105.8 × 76.9 cm); sheet: 41 5/8 × 30 1/4" (105.8 × 76.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Male and Female Seal I from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 938.1968	1967	Lithograph on (a) acetate flanged onto (b) ivory, smooth, wove German Etching paper, and mounted on ivory mat board	composition and sheet: 30 3/16 × 22 1/2" (76.6 × 57.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Male and Female Seal II from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 939.1968	1967	Lithograph on (a) acetate flanged onto (b) ivory, smooth, wove Copperplate Deluxe paper, and mounted on ivory mat board	composition and sheet: 22 3/8 × 30 1/16" (56.9 × 76.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Square Against the Light from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2050.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 3/8" (76.5 × 56.9 cm ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Study for a seal from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2047.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/16 × 22 1/4" (76.4 × 56.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
White Seal from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 2049.1967	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/8 × 22 5/16" (76.5 × 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.
Yellow Spiral from the series Tamarind Squares Print Acc. 935.1968	1967	Lithograph	composition and sheet: 30 1/4 × 22 1/4" (76.8 × 56.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Kleiner Bell & Co.