id: 156578
accession number: 1992.284
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.284
updated: 2025-02-09 04:51:33.313000
Blue Lovers, 1951. Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909–2015). Black, red, and blue gouache (scratched away to created design); sheet: 54.1 x 42 cm (21 5/16 x 16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.284
title: Blue Lovers
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creation date: 1951
creation date earliest: 1951
creation date latest: 1951
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creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson
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culture: Switzerland
technique: black, red, and blue gouache (scratched away to created design)
department: Drawings
collection: DR - Swiss
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909–2015) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 54.1 x 42 cm (21 5/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
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description: cream(3) wove paper
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inscription: signed, lower right, in white gouache: erni 51 ; VERSO: upper left, in graphite: 5 [circled] ; [by artist?], lower right, in black ball-point pen: HANS ERNI, LUCERNE / BLUE LOVERS / PHOTO HE [HE in ligature] ; lower right, in blue ink: 9
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The German Tradition
opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00
The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
The Art Colony, Cleveland
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The Art Colony, Cleveland
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
page number: Mentioned: p. 71
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388
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