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        "tombstone": "Las Meninas, 2019. Simone Leigh (American, b. 1967). Terracotta, porcelain; overall: 61.6 x 74.9 x 23.4 cm (24 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller, 2019.175.a. \u00a9 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved.",
        "current_location": "229A Contemporary",
        "title": "Las Meninas",
        "creation_date": "2019",
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        "collection": "CONTEMP - Sculpture",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 61.6 x 74.9 x 23.4 cm (24 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 9 3/16 in.)",
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved.",
        "inscriptions": [],
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 393229,
                    "title": "Contemporary Installation",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Installation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-04-12T04:00:00"
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        "provenance": [
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                "description": "(Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "date": "2019",
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        "did_you_know": "The hollow face is surrounded by dozens of small porcelain flowers.",
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        "description": "<em>Las Meninas</em> draws on traditions throughout global art and culture to address issues surrounding the female body, race, beauty, and community. The work\u2019s skirted form conjures figures from the Spanish Golden Age painting <em>Las Meninas</em> (1656) by Diego Velazquez, apparel worn in the Afro-Brazilian religious tradition candombl\u00e9, 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.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79878359"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Liebert, Emily and Fellah, Nadiah. \u201cAcquisitions 2019: Contemporary Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 18-19.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 18; Mentioned: P. 18, 19.",
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        "creditline": "Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller",
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        "gallery_donor_text": "Toby's Gallery for Contemporary Art",
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                "description": "Simone Leigh (American, b. 1967)",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:04.764000"
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