About the Artwork
Phantsi Komngcunube
2017
Nicholas Hlobo
born 1975
South african
Unknown
Ribbon and leather on canvas
Overall: 94 1/2 × 71 5/8 × 7 inches (240 × 182 × 17.8 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Museum Purchase, Arman and Louise Simon Foundation Fund; gifts from Dr. and Mrs. E. Bryce Alpern, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rattner, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bushnell, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Frank, Gloria Whelan, Leonard and Gertrude K. Kasle, Estate of Annetta Kelly, Frank W. Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perron, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Coskey in memory of Leo Coskey, John S. Newberry, Archives of American Art, Earl E. Brinning, Robert H. Tannahill, Mrs. George Kamperman, Lillian Henkel Haass, Museum Collection Purchase Prize and Kathryn B. Boos Purchase Prize, by exchange
2018.72
© Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul
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(Lehmann Maupin Art Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
2018-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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© Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong and Seoul
Nicholas Hlobo, Phantsi Komngcunube, 2017, ribbon and leather on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Arman and Louise Simon Foundation Fund; gifts from Dr. and Mrs. E. Bryce Alpern, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rattner, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bushnell, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Frank, Gloria Whelan, Leonard and Gertrude K. Kasle, Estate of Annetta Kelly, Frank W. Donovan, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perron, Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Coskey in memory of Leo Coskey, John S. Newberry, Archives of American Art, Earl E. Brinning, Robert H. Tannahill, Mrs. George Kamperman, Lillian Henkel Haass, Museum Collection Purchase Prize and Kathryn B. Boos Purchase Prize, by exchange, 2018.72.
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