id: 160193
accession number: 1998.112
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.112
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:34.909000
Untitled, c. 1950. Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010). Brush and black ink and gray wash, with white paint and traces of black chalk(?) and blue crayon; sheet: 55.9 x 71.2 cm (22 x 28 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1998.112 © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
title: Untitled
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creation date: c. 1950
creation date earliest: 1945
creation date latest: 1955
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright: © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: brush and black ink and gray wash, with white paint and traces of black chalk(?) and blue crayon
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American 20th Century
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 55.9 x 71.2 cm (22 x 28 1/16 in.)
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description: board faced with clay-coated white paper, with collage of cream wove paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00
Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Louise Bourgeois. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (November 3, 1982 - February 8, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1982-11-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Iconography of Louise Bourgeois. Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY (1980).', 'opening_date': '1980-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, New York, NY
date: after 1950-by 1983
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BP America, Inc., Cleveland, OH
date: ?-1998
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: September 8, 1998
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 270-271, 298; Reproduced: p. 271
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according to New York 1982-83, 50, pl. 25
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Gorovoy, Jerry. The Iconography of Louise Bourgeois. Exh. Cat. New York: Max Hutchinson Gallery, 1980.
page number: Reproduced: n.p.
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Wye, Deborah. Louise Bourgeois. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: plate 25
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings & Photographs,” October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
page number: Mentioned: p. 121, no. 90
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