id:			154281
accession number:	1988.9
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.9
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Aphrodite Torso, 200–1 BCE. Greece, Tarentum (Taranto, Italy), Hellenistic Period. Thasian marble; overall: 66.3 x 36.2 cm (26 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1988.9

title:				Aphrodite Torso
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creation date:			200–1 BCE
creation date earliest:		-199
creation date latest:		-1
current location:		102C Greek
creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Greece, Tarentum (Taranto, Italy), Hellenistic Period
technique:	Thasian marble
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Greek
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 66.3 x 36.2 cm (26 1/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1988
	opening date:   1989-03-01T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1988</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 14, 1989).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst</em>, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (18 June - 13 September 1960).', 'opening_date': '1960-06-18T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), New York, NY, Switzerland, Paris, France
	date: Early 1900s
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	Friedrich (Fritz) Ludwig von Gans (1833-1920), Frankfurt, Germany
	date: Before 1920
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	Kunsthandel K. W. Bachstitz (Kurt Walter Bachstitz), Berlin, Germany
	date: 1921-1924? or later
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	Herr Max Emden, Berlin, Germany and Villa Brissago, Switzerland
	date: before 1935
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	Dr. Robert Käppeli, Lucerne, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1935-1988
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1988-
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CITATIONS

	Bachstitz, K. W. <em>The Bachstitz Gallery Collection</em>. <em>Band II: Sammlungen der Galerie Bachstitz: Antike Kunst</em>). Berlin: [A. Frisch], 1921.
	page number: 	Pp. 72-73, Tafel 85-86 (Cat. 218).
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	Schefold, Karl. <em>Meisterwerke griechischer Kunst</em>. (Ausstellung Kunsthalle Basel, 18 June - 13 September 1960.) Basel: B. Schwabe, 1960.
	page number: 	Pp. 97, 281-282 (Cat. 395).
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	Antikenmuseum Basel, Robert Käppeli, and Ernst Berger. <em>Kunstwerke der Antike</em>. [Basel]: [Antikenmuseum], 1963.
	page number: 	Cat. A 21 (inv. 215).
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	Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Classical Art: A Brief Guide to the Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland]: The Museum, 1989.
	page number: 	P. 14, fig. 26.
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	"The Year in Review for 1988." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75.
	page number: 	P. 41-43 (ill. p. 42), 68 (no. 3).
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25160061

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 10
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n25

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