id: 369885 accession number: 2019.175 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.175 updated: 2021-01-21 10:05:09.225000 Las Meninas, 2019. Simone Leigh (American, b. 1967). Terracotta, steel, raffia, porcelain; overall: 182.9 x 213.4 x 152.4 cm (72 x 84 x 60 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller 2019.175 © 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved. title: Las Meninas title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2019 creation date earliest: 2019 creation date latest: 2019 current location: 229B Contemporary creditline: Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller copyright: © 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved. --- culture: America technique: Terracotta, steel, raffia, porcelain department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Simone Leigh (American, b. 1967) --- measurements: Overall: 182.9 x 213.4 x 152.4 cm (72 x 84 x 60 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * TEFAF New York Spring 2019. Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (March 3-7, 2019) --- PROVENANCE (Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2019 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2019- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The hollow face is surrounded by dozens of small porcelain flowers. digital description: Las Meninas draws on traditions throughout global art and culture to address issues surrounding the female body, race, beauty, and community. The work’s skirted form conjures figures from the Spanish Golden Age painting Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velazquez, apparel worn in the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition candomblé, and Mousgoum buildings in Cameroon. The white-glazed terracotta torso, alluding to sacred and secular traditions of body painting, leads to a faceless head, incorporating both figuration and abstraction. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: --- IMAGES