id:			385948
accession number:	2020.238
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.238
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:29.242000

Two Women on Red Blanket, One Reading, 1987. Joy Laville (American, 1923–2018), Beth Lovendusky. Color lithograph on Rives BFK paper; sheet: 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20 3/4 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Kay Kujala Deaux 2020.238

title:				Two Women on Red Blanket, One Reading
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creation date:			1987
creation date earliest:		1987
creation date latest:		1987
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creditline:			Gift of Kay Kujala Deaux
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culture:	Mexico, 20th century
technique:	color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Joy Laville (American, 1923–2018)  - artist

* Beth Lovendusky  - printer

* Tamarind Institute  - publisher

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measurements: Sheet: 52.7 x 63.5 cm (20 3/4 x 25 in.)
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edition of the work: 	edition of 30

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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signed, in pencil, at lower right: HJ Laville
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	inscription:	lower left, chop marks of Tamarind and printer
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	inscription:	numbered in graphite lower left: 21/30
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Kay Deaux, New York, NY
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 14, 2020
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fun fact:
Joy Laville originally moved to Mexico because the inexpensive cost of living allowed her to pursue an artistic career.

digital description:
The English-born artist Joy Laville relocated to Mexico in 1956 to study art and spent the remainder of her career working there. Beginning in the 1970s, she began to develop her signature style, seen in this work, which focused on introspective images of female figures often rendered abstractly and in a restrained pastel palette. Here, Laville collaborated with a master printer from the well-known Tamarind Lithography Workshop to produce an enigmatic but provocative depiction of women.

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