The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 4, 2023

Man (To Be Embroidered)

1968

Liliana Porter

(Argentinian, b. 1941)

Argentina

Etching, aquatint, and softground etching with yarn embroidery

Image: 25 x 18 cm (9 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.); Plate: 63.5 x 45.5 cm (25 x 17 15/16 in.); Sheet: 77 x 57.7 cm (30 5/16 x 22 11/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2019.173

© Liliana Porter

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

From the time she created this print in the 1960s, Liliana Porter has continued to incorporate string into her work in a variety of ways.

Description

The Argentinian artist Liliana Porter experimented with printmaking throughout her entire career. In works such as this one, she played on the boundaries of creating an object and representing an image by adding three-dimensional decoration to printed silhouettes. The embroidery seen here had domestic, feminine associations that countered the masculine form, which the artist associated with alienation.

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed, in pencil, at lower left: “Man” (to be embroidered)

Inscription

at center: a/p signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: Liliana Porter 68

Liliana Porter

Argentine painter, collagist, and teacher, born 1941
Provenance
1968-2019
Studio of the artist, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through Sicardi Ayers Bacino, Houston, TX
September 9, 2019
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Bazzano-Nelson, Florencia. Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2008. mentioned p. 24, p. 41n 46
Exhibitions--Extended Dates. “A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 60, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 4-5. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 5.
Exhibition history

A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.173