1959
gouache
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1959 gouache by Chryssa (Vardea-Mavromichali), held at Museum of Modern Art.
This image is a grid of tiny, repeating symbols—dots, lines, and squiggles—all in black, white, and gray. The shapes look hand-drawn but are arranged neatly in rows and columns, like a puzzle. Some sections have numbers like "77" or "2" scattered in, almost like labels or codes. The symbols don’t match anything familiar—no faces, no objects, just abstract marks. The paper itself looks like it started as printed text or a pattern, then got covered in ink and paint. If you like this kind of abstract, visual language, check out gouache next—it’s a paint that’s thicker than watercolor but thinner than oil.
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali (Greek: Χρυσά Βαρδέα-Μαυρομιχάλη; December 31, 1933 – December 23, 2013) was a Greek American artist who worked in a wide variety of media.
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