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accession number: 2002.29
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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
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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
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culture: America
technique: white marble on wooden base
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture
type: Sculpture
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CREATORS
* Louise Bourgeois (American, 1911–2010) - artist
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measurements: Overall: 92.7 x 88.9 x 63.5 cm (36 1/2 x 35 x 25 in.)
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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).
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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'}
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PROVENANCE
Louise Bourgeois [1911-2010], New York, NY, possibly consigned to Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
date: 1984-?
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(Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY)
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(Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany, 1995, sold to private collector)
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Private Collector
date: 1995-?
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(Christie's, NY, May, 14, 2002, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2002
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2002-
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RELATED WORKS
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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.
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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
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“Calendar.” The Burlington Magazine 144, no. 1197 (December 2002).
page number: Reproduced p. 786
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Bal, Mieke. Louise Bourgeois' Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
page number: Reproduced p. 67; mentioned p. 66
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Bernadac, Marie-Laure, and Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois. Paris: Flammarion, 1996.
page number: Reproduced p. 106
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Bernadac, Marie-Laure, and Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois. Paris: Flammarion, 2006.
page number: Reproduced p. 123
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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
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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.
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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.
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Bourgeois, Louise, and Stuart Morgan. Louise Bourgeois. Cincinnati, Ohio: Taft Museum, 1987.
page number: Reproduced p. 34-35.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Storr, Robert, Louise Bourgeois, Paulo Herkenhoff, and Allan Schwartzman. Louise Bourgeois. London: Phaidon Press, 2003.
page number: Reproduced and mentioned p. 70.
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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.
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Christie’s. Post-War and Contemporary. New York: Christie’s, 16 May 2013, Lot 233.
page number: Reproduced p. 262.
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Christie’s. Post-War and Contemporary. New York: Christie’s, 14 May 2002, Lot 28.
page number: Reproduced p. 82.
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Kim, Tina. Kukje Gallery: 25 Years. Seoul: Kukje Gallery, 2007.
page number: Reproduced p. 19.
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Louise Bourgeois: Femme. Exh. Cat. Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum, 2006.
page number: Reproduced p. 23.
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Bourgeois, Louise. Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work 1984-1989. London: Riverside Studios, 1990.
page number: Reproduced p. 28.
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Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints. Exh. Cat. Jena, Germany: Städtischen Museen Jena, 2010.
page number: Reproduced p. 18 and 53.
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Bourgeois, Louise, and Xavier Tricot. Un Salon Pour Louise Bourgeois. Oudenburg [Belgium]: Foundation De Elf Lijnen, 2006.
page number: Reproduced pgs. 22-23.
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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.
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