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This work, formerly in the collection of art critic and scientist Mario Schemberg, is a fine example of Mira Schendel's spatial investigations of the 1960's. Her concerns with structure and space would become more overt in her later series "Os Sarrafos- The Slats" of the 1980's.

Schendel's recurrent interest on the boundries between real and virtual space, surface and line, began in the mid 1960's, as can be seen in this prime example, and continued towards the mid 1980's. In the late stage of her career she revisited her use of reductive shapes and color, specifically in those compositions executed in white tempera and a single black line.