Jesús Rafael Soto

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Alfredo and Yolanda Boulton, Caracas (acquired directly from the artist by 1974)
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

Alfredo Boulton, Soto, Caracas, 1973, p. 75, illustrated 
Exh. Cat., Ciudad Bolívar, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, La construcción de la mirada: XX años del Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, 1973-1993, 1993, p. 20, illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, SOTO: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1974 - January 1975, no. 32, p. 79, illustrated
Kanagawa, The Museum of Modern Art; Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art; Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum; and Hyogo, Itami City Museum of Art, Magician of Vision, Rafael Soto, May 1990 - January 1991, no. 24, p. 44, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Jesús Rafael Soto, January - March 1997, p. 77, illustrated in color
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Heterotopias: Medio siglo sin-lugar: 1918-1968, December 2000 - February 2001, p. 343, illustrated in color
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Inverted Utopias, Avant-Garde Art in Latin America, June-September 2004, no. 173, pp. 284-285, illustrated in color
New York, Hauser & Wirth, Soto: Vibrations 1950-1960, April - July 2019, pp. 108-109, illustrated in color (as Untitled [Barroco negro])