id:			370521
accession number:	2019.175.a
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.175.a
updated:		2021-12-03 10:01:55.768000

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 © 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved.

title:				Las Meninas
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creation date:			2019
creation date earliest:		2019
creation date latest:		2019
current location:		229A Contemporary
creditline:			Purchased with funds donated by Scott Mueller
copyright:			© 2019 Simone Leigh. All rights reserved.

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culture:	America
technique:	Terracotta, porcelain
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Simone Leigh (American, b. 1967) 

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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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021
	opening date:   2021-04-20T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019-
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fun fact: 
The hollow face is surrounded by dozens of small porcelain flowers.

digital 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’s 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 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.

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