The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Woman, View, and Small Square Mirror
1987
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Joy Laville originally moved to Mexico because the inexpensive cost of living allowed her to pursue an artistic career.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.- ?-2020Kay Deaux, New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art2020-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.239