id:			169869
accession number:	2012.12
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.12
updated:		2022-01-04 17:53:57.082000

Lagniappe 1, 1978. Lynda Benglis (American, 1941-). Cast paper, pigment, acrylic, glitter and polypropylene; overall: 129 x 66 x 30 cm (50 13/16 x 26 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2012.12 © Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

title:				Lagniappe 1
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creation date:			1978
creation date earliest:		1978
creation date latest:		1978
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creditline:			The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
copyright:			© Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	cast paper, pigment, acrylic, glitter and polypropylene
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Sculpture
type:		Mixed Media
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CREATORS

* Lynda Benglis (American, 1941-)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 129 x 66 x 30 cm (50 13/16 x 26 x 11 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed: L. Benglis 3/26
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): July 20, 2012 - November 19, 2012.

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PROVENANCE

	Artist (1978); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1980); Texas Gallery (1980)
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Lynda Benglis explains the inspiration for her work in this quote from 1982: "I felt that in the minimalist tradition there was no sense of theater. There was a puritanical quality of the work ethic. . . there was still the idea of the 'heroic gesture' in some way. Having been involved in logic, I wanted to make something that related to the body, that was humanistic, and not machine-like . . . I was interested in a non-logical, contained activity." In her later works, Lynda Benglis often used vertical, unknotted forms that are pinched in the center or at the ends, and layered with a thin skin of gold leaf. As the title of this work implies, Lagniappe 1 makes references to cheap, take-away gifts for costumers, but also to the human body, especially female attributes.
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