"R-49" is a larger textured painting made of a combination of oxide pigments on board that connects Gramcko’s artistic search with the formless. The work belonged to Roberto Guevara, an influential art critic who named Gego’s Reticulárea. R-49’s composition displays a chaotic gestural disarrangement of stains and blotches spread on the pictorial surface. The thickness of the material and the peeled surface show how that any attempt to construct an image is dissolved by the exuberance of the matter. Curator Juan Carlos López compared Gramcko’s work from this period to Alberto Burri’s postwar nonrepresentational abstract paintings.