id: 162292 accession number: 2002.29 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.29 updated: 2025-06-15 11:01:35.587000 Blind Man's Buff, 1984. Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010). White marble on wooden base; overall: 92.7 x 88.9 x 63.5 cm (36 1/2 x 35 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2002.29. © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Blind Man's Buff title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1984 creation date earliest: 1984 creation date latest: 1984 current location: 229C Contemporary creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America technique: white marble on wooden base department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 92.7 x 88.9 x 63.5 cm (36 1/2 x 35 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Louise Bourgeois opening date: 2007-10-11T00:00:00 Louise Bourgeois. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (October 11, 2007-January 27, 2008); Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris cedex O4, France (March 5-June 2, 2008); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (June 27-September 28, 2008). title: Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois opening date: 2011-03-26T00:00:00 Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 7, 2011). title: Contemporary Installation opening date: 2021-04-12T04:00:00 Contemporary Installation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture. Robert Miller Gallery, New York (September 11 – October 6, 1984).', 'opening_date': '1984-10-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Sculpture by Women in the Eighties. University of Pittsburgh Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (November 7 – December 8, 1985).', 'opening_date': '1985-12-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (May 5 – June 28, 1987); The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL (October 23, 1987 – January 18, 1988); Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (July 1 – August 28, 1988); Washington University, Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO (September 18 – October 30, 1988); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (September 27 – November, 26 1989).', 'opening_date': '1987-06-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany (organizer) (December 2, 1989 – January 28, 1990); Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, West Germany (February 14 – March 25, 1990); Lyon Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (July 5 – August 20, 1990); Fundación Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (November 6, 1990 – January 6, 1991); Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland (March 7 – May 5, 1991); Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (May 25 – July 8, 1991).', 'opening_date': '1989-12-02T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work 1984-1989. Riverside Studios, London (May 2 – June 17, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-06-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (co-organizer) (April 22 – July 31, 1994); The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C (co-organizer) (September 23, 1994 – January 15, 1995); Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (March 15 – May 28, 1995); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (June 23 – October 8, 1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-07-31T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Louise Bourgeois [1911-2010], New York, NY, possibly consigned to Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY date: 1984-? footnotes: citations: (Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, 1995, sold to private collector) date: ?-1995 footnotes: citations: Private Collector date: 1995-? footnotes: citations: (Christie's, NY, May, 14, 2002, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2002 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2002- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Blind Man’s Buff, Rare Sculpture by Modern Master Louise Bourgeois, Acquired for Contemporary Collection,” May 15, 2002, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4452 Grove, Jeffrey D., "Blind Man's Buff", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 43 no. 04, April 2003 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2003-04/page/n7 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 120 url: “Calendar.” The Burlington Magazine 144, no. 1197 (December 2002). page number: Reproduced p. 786 url: Bal, Mieke. Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. page number: Reproduced p. 67; mentioned p. 66 url: Bernadac, Marie-Laure, and Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois. Paris: Flammarion, 1996. page number: Reproduced p. 106 url: Bernadac, Marie-Laure, and Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois. Paris: Flammarion, 2006. page number: Reproduced p. 123 url: Bourgeois, Louise, Lynne Cooke, Béatrice Parent, and Suzanne Pagé. Louise Bourgeois; Sculptures, environnements, dessins 1938-1995. Paris: Paris-Musées, 1995. page number: Reproduced p. 161 url: Jahn, Andrea, and Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois: Subversionen des Körpers : die Kunst der 40er bis 70er Jahre. Berlin: Reimer, 1999. page number: Reproduced p. 202, Fig. 106; mentioned p. 199. url: Bourgeois, Louise, Charlotta Kotik, Terrie Sultan, and Christian Leigh. Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994. page number: Reproduced p. 90, Plate 5; mentioned p. 56. url: Bourgeois, Louise, and Stuart Morgan. Louise Bourgeois. Cincinnati, Ohio: Taft Museum, 1987. page number: Reproduced p. 34-35. url: Morris, Frances, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. Louise Bourgeois. London: Tate Pub, 2007. page number: Reproduced p. 59, Fig. 42; mentioned pgs. 58 and 60. url: Heartney, Eleanor, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. 2013. page number: Reproduced p. 42; mentioned p. 43 url: Gorovoy, Jerry, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, and Paulo Herkenhoff. Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 1997. page number: Reproduced p. 165. url: Storr, Robert, Louise Bourgeois, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Allan Schwartzman. Louise Bourgeois. London: Phaidon Press, 2003. page number: Reproduced and mentioned p. 70. url: Tani, Ellen Y., and Amanda Cachia. Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art. Exh. Cat. Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018. page number: Reproduced p. 35, Fig. 18; mentioned p. 35-36. url: Christie’s. Post-War and Contemporary. New York: Christie’s, 16 May 2013, Lot 233. page number: Reproduced p. 262. url: Christie’s. Post-War and Contemporary. New York: Christie’s, 14 May 2002, Lot 28. page number: Reproduced p. 82. url: Kim, Tina. Kukje Gallery: 25 Years. Seoul: Kukje Gallery, 2007. page number: Reproduced p. 19. url: Louise Bourgeois: Femme. Exh. Cat. Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum, 2006. page number: Reproduced p. 23. url: Bourgeois, Louise. Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work 1984-1989. London: Riverside Studios, 1990. page number: Reproduced p. 28. url: Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints. Exh. Cat. Jena, Germany: Städtischen Museen Jena, 2010. page number: Reproduced p. 18 and 53. url: Bourgeois, Louise, and Xavier Tricot. Un Salon Pour Louise Bourgeois. Oudenburg [Belgium]: Foundation De Elf Lijnen, 2006. page number: Reproduced pgs. 22-23. url: Bourgeois, Louise. Louise Bourgeois: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 25 Mei - 8 Juli 1991. Schaffhausen [Switzerland]: Verlag Photographic AG, 1989. page number: Reproduced pgs. 34 and 151. url: --- IMAGES