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accession number:	2016.544
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.544
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Serpent Deity (Nag Devta I), 1979. Mrinalini Mukherjee (Indian, 1949–2015). Undyed and dyed hemp rope and fibers; cotton; steel; overall: 114.3 x 83.8 x 129.5 cm (45 x 33 x 51 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Phyllis Granoff 2016.544 © Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation

title:				Serpent Deity (Nag Devta I)
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creation date:			1979
creation date earliest:		1979
creation date latest:		1979
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creditline:			Gift of Phyllis Granoff
copyright:			© Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation

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culture:	India
technique:	Undyed and dyed hemp rope and fibers; cotton; steel
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Mixed Media
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CREATORS

* Mrinalini Mukherjee (Indian, 1949–2015)  - artist
Born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Meera Mukherjee studied painting, graphic design, and sculpture in Calcutta, New Delhi, Shantiniketan, and Munich. During her four years in Europe, she met and became acquainted with the work of Henry Moore (English, 1898–1986) and decided to adapt a similar modernist vision to rural Indian subjects and casting techniques. Mukherjee plays with formal abstraction and exaggerated proportions to achieve a modernist aesthetic that marries seamlessly with the Indigenous.
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measurements: Overall: 114.3 x 83.8 x 129.5 cm (45 x 33 x 51 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Contemporary Installation
	opening date:   2021-04-12T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Installation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrinalini Mukherjee [1949-2015], New Delhi, India, to Phyllis Granoff
	date: 1979
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	Phyllis Granoff [b. 1947], New Haven, CT, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1979–2016
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2016–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mukherjee, Mrinalini, David Elliott, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Jagdish Swaminathan, and Chrissie Iles. <em>Mrinalini Mukherjee: Sculpture</em>. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1994.
	page number: 	p. 12
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	Ella Datta, <em>Art India</em>, Vol. XI, Issue IV, Quarter IV, 2006, p. 214.
	page number: 	p. 214
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	Murtaza Vali, “Mrinalini Mukherjee, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi,” <em>Artforum</em> (Summer 2015), 349–50.
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	Mukherjee, Mrinalini, and Shanay Jhaveri. <em>Mrinalini Mukherjee</em>. Mumbai, India: The Shoestring Publisher, 2019.
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	"New Take on the New<em>: A </em>comprehensive reinstallation of the galleries of contemporary art offers fresh viewpoints on the art of our time.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): Cover, 4-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 5; Mentioned: P. 4.
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	“New Take on the New: A comprehensive reinstallation of the galleries of contemporary art offers fresh viewpoints on the art of our time."  <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 4-9.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 5; Mentioned: P. 4.
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