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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1987 creation date earliest: 1987 creation date latest: 1987 current location: creditline: Gift of Kay Kujala Deaux copyright: --- culture: Mexico, 20th century technique: pastel department: Drawings collection: DR - Mexican type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joy Laville (American, 1923-2018) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 50.2 x 69.8 cm (19 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: HJLaville 87 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Kay Deaux, New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES