id: 156578 accession number: 1992.284 share license status: Copyrighted 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1951 creation date earliest: 1951 creation date latest: 1951 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson copyright: --- culture: Switzerland technique: black, red, and blue gouache (scratched away to created design) department: Drawings collection: DR - Swiss type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hans Erni (Swiss, 1909–2015) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 54.1 x 42 cm (21 5/16 x 16 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: 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 translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Art Colony, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: The Art Colony, Cleveland date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 --- IMAGES