id:			162293
accession number:	2002.29.a
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.29.a
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:46.947000

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.a © 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, 20th century
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
	<i>Louise Bourgeois</i>. 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
	<i>Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois</i>. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 7, 2011).

	title:		Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021
	opening date:   2021-04-20T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture, September-October 1984', 'opening_date': '1984-09-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'University of Pittsburgh Gallery, Sculpture by Women in the Eighties, November-December 1985', 'opening_date': '1985-11-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cincinnati, The Taft Museum; Miami, The Art Museum at Florida International University; Austin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum; St Louis, Washington University, Gallery of Art; and Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, Louise Bourgeois, May 1987-November 1989 (illustrated, n.p.)', 'opening_date': '1987-05-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': "Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain; Barcelona, Fondaçion Tapies; Berne, Kunstmuseum; and Otterlo, Kröller-Muller-Museum, Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1989-July 1991, p. 151 (illustrated)", 'opening_date': '1989-12-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'London, Riverside Studios, Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work 1984-1989, May-June 1990, p.28 (illustrated)', 'opening_date': '1990-05-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': "Brooklyn Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Prague, Galerie Rudolfinum; and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993, April 1994-October 1995, p. 90, pl. 5 (illustrated)", 'opening_date': '1994-04-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Tate Modern (10/11/2007 - 1/27/2008), Centre national d\'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (3/5/2008 - 6/2/2008), and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (6/27/2008 - 9/28/2008):  "Louise Bourgeois" p. 58-59, fig. 42.', 'opening_date': '2007-10-11T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University (3/26/2011 - 8/7/2011): "Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois"', 'opening_date': '2011-03-26T00:00:00'}

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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)
	date: 1995
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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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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 120
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