id: 169886 accession number: 2012.13 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.13 updated: 2025-02-09 06:59:13.588000 Les Femmes Du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque, 2008. Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956). Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with a UV protective laminate; overall: 76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2012.13 © Lalla Essaydi title: Les Femmes Du Maroc: La Grande Odalisque title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2008 creation date earliest: 2008 creation date latest: 2008 current location: creditline: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: © Lalla Essaydi --- culture: Morocco technique: chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with a UV protective laminate department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956) - artist Lalla Essaydi grew up in Morocco and has lived in Saudi Arabia and New York City. She received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 2003. Her photographs have been widely collected and exhibited. Her works are intended to reflect the complex female identities in the Muslim world, and they provide a bridge from historic Islamic art into contemporary society. --- measurements: Overall: 76.2 x 101.6 cm (30 x 40 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Label on the mount, verso. The labels are at the center bottom and read as follows: EDWYNN HOUK GALLERY Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956): LES FEMMES DU MAROC: LA GRANDE ODALISQUE, 2008 Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum and protected with Mactac luster laminate, 30 x 40 inches. Printed under the direct supervision of the photographer. Print number 4 from an edition of 15. Signed on artist's label on mount, verso. Illustrated: Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc (New York (Power House Books and Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2009) p. 27; Chika Okeke-Agulu and Okwui Enwezor: Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (New York: Damiani, 2009). [LE.LFMgrande.3040.4] At the bottom in small type: 745 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10151 Tel 212 750 7070 Fax 212 688 4848 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic art rotation opening date: 2015-12-16T05:00:00 Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2015-December 19, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Lalla Essaydi, New York, NY date: 2008–? footnotes: citations: (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–2012 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2012– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Enwezor, Okwui, and Chika Okeke-Agulu. Contemporary African Art Since 1980. Bologna: Damiani, 2009. page number: url: Essaydi, Lalla, and Fatima Mernissi. Les Femmes Du Maroc. Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2009. page number: p. 27 url: --- IMAGES