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        "accession_number": "2012.14",
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        "tombstone": "Harem #14, 2009. Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956). Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with a UV protective laminate; overall: 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2012.14. \u00a9 Lalla Essaydi",
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        "title": "Harem #14",
        "creation_date": "2009",
        "creation_date_earliest": 2009,
        "creation_date_latest": 2009,
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        "culture": [
            "Morocco"
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        "technique": "Chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with a UV protective laminate",
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        "department": "Islamic Art",
        "collection": "Islamic Art",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Overall: 101.6 x 76.2 cm (40 x 30 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Lalla Essaydi",
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                "inscription": "Label on the mount, verso.  The labels are at the center bottom and read as follows:\r\n\r\nEDWYNN HOUK GALLERY\r\n\r\nLalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956):\r\n\r\nHAREM #14, 2009\r\n\r\nChromogenic print mounted to aluminum and protected with Mactac luster laminate, 30 x 40 inches.  Printed under the direct supervision of the photographer.  Print number 1 from an edition of 15.  Signed on artist's label on mount, verso.  [LE.HAREM.3040.1]\r\n\r\nAt the bottom in small type:\r\n\r\n745 Fifth Avenue  New York  NY  10151    Tel  212 750 7070   Fax 212 688 4848\r\n",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 380793,
                    "title": "Islamic art rotation",
                    "description": "<i>Islamic art rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 3, 2012-December 9, 2013).",
                    "opening_date": "2012-12-03T05:00:00"
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                "description": "Lalla Essaydi, New York, NY",
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                "date": "2009\u2013?",
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            {
                "description": "(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "date": "?\u20132012",
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "2012\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "The photographer says, \"In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses\u2014as artist, as Moroccan, as traditionalist, as liberal, as Muslim. In short, I invite viewers to resist stereotypes.\"",
        "description": "Lalla Essaydi examines the role of Muslim women by applying layers of Arabic calligraphy by hand with henna on the faces and feet of the two young women whose camouflaged dress mimics the colorful wall tiles in an elaborate Moroccan house belonging to her family. Rather than representing the harem as the euphoric anxiety-free place of the Western imagination, Essaydi is portraying its historical reality as, she says, \"a dangerous frontier where sacred law and pleasure collide.\" Young women who disobeyed were confined in this beautiful house\u2014accompanied only by servants\u2014for a month in silence.",
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.14",
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        "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
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                "description": "Lalla Essaydi (Moroccan, b. 1956)",
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                "biography": "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.",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:17.032000"
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