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Claudette Schreuders

1973

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Claudette Schreuders carves and paints wooden figures that occupy an unsettling register between folk tradition and psychological portraiture. Working from Cape Town, her sculptures are small in scale yet dense with emotional ambiguity, their hand-worked surfaces and flattened forms holding figures in states of quiet tension or unease. She became the first South African artist to have a sculpture acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her practice extends into painting, though the carved figure remains her primary medium.

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Artworks (11)

Show and Tell from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Crying in Public from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 12 15/16 x 9 1/4" (32.8 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/16" (38 x 28.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Love Story from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Third Person from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/16" (38 x 28.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Writer from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 7/8 x 11 1/4" (37.8 x 28.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Baba from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 11 1/4 x 13" (28.5 x 33 cm); sheet: 9 1/4 x 14 7/8" (23.5 x 37.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Couple from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 3/16" (33 x 23.4 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 1/4" (38 x 28.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Love from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 13 x 9 1/4" (33 x 23.5 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/16" (38 x 28.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Narrow Bed from Crying in Public

2003 · One from a series of nine lithographs with chine collé

composition: 9 1/4 x 11 1/4" (23.5 x 28.6 cm); sheet: 11 5/16 x 13" (28.7 x 33 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Crying in Public

2003 · Series of nine lithographs with chine collé

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Museum of Modern Art

The Three Sisters and The Critic

2002 · Lithograph with chine collé?

composition: 11 x 15 3/4" (28 x 40 cm); sheet: 13 3/8 x 18 1/8" (34 x 46 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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