Saturday, September 19, 2020

William Anastasi | Puzzle Puzzle





William Anastasi
Puzzle Puzzle
New York City, USA: Museum of Modern Art, 1979
Jigsaw puzzle: printed cardboard, boxed
2 x 13 x 8"
Edition of 5000

A five hundred and thirteen piece puzzle produced for the Museum of Modern Art three years The Anastasi Puzzle (see previous post). The dimensions of the completed puzzle are 16 x 20".

Decades later Anastasi repurposed elements of the MoMA Puzzle puzzle as the basis for a series of shaped puzzle paintings, including Puzzle Rug, which the artist considers to be a woven floor sculpture (below). 





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