id:			519323
accession number:	2022.103
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.103
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:36.985000

Sirius #2, 2022. Ouattara Watts (American, b. 1957, Abidjan, Ivory Coast). Mixed media on canvas; 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Tanya Coke 2022.103

title:				Sirius #2
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creation date:			2022
creation date earliest:		2022
creation date latest:		2022
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creditline:			Gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Tanya Coke
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culture:	America
technique:	Mixed media on canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Mixed Media
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CREATORS

* Ouattara Watts (American, b. 1957, Abidjan, Ivory Coast)  - artist

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measurements: 200 x 200 cm (78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	(Karma Gallery, New York, NY, acquired directly from the artist)
	date: 2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022–
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fun fact:
The Cleveland Museum of Art owns a Kanaga mask (1971.289) of the type that is rendered in <em>Sirius #2</em>.

digital description:
This large-scale work features core elements from a visual vocabulary that Ouattara Watts has been developing over the last four and a half decades: a West African mask floats in the center of a mathematical diagram whose arrows point upwards to the heavens and sideways to an evocation of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s signature Endless Column. This painted iconography interacts with expressionist painterly gestures and collaged elements, such as the lace doily at the center of the composition.

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