id:			385963
accession number:	2020.239
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.239
updated:		2022-03-05 10:00:51.378000

Woman, View, and Small Square Mirror, 1987. Joy Laville (American, 1923-2018). Pastel; sheet: 50.2 x 69.8 cm (19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Kay Kujala Deaux 2020.239

title:				Woman, View, and Small Square Mirror
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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:	pastel
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Mexican
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

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

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measurements: Sheet: 50.2 x 69.8 cm (19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: HJLaville 87
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Kay Deaux, New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 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 pale palette. Here, Laville used thinly applied pastel—her preferred medium at the time—to produce an enigmatic but provocative depiction of women.

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