The Bewitched

Courtesy of Roger Conover

1932

Mina Loy
English, 1882-1966

Status: On View, Gallery 396
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Mina Loy
Title: The Bewitched
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1932
Medium: Mixed media on board
Dimensions: 59.7 × 79.4 cm (23 1/2 × 31 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Major Acquisitions Centennial Fund
Reference Number: 2024.456
Copyright: © 1932 Mina Loy

Julien Levy Gallery, Paintings by Mina Loy, exh. brochure (New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1933), n.p., cat. 8.
Roger L. Conover, ed., The Last Lunar Baedeker (Highlands, N.C.: Jargon Press, 1982), n.p., (ill.), as Snails, Monochrome by Mina Loy, 1903.
Mary Ann Caws, Mina Loy: Apology of Genius (London: Reaktion Books, 2022), n.p. (color ill.), as Fallen Angels, c. 1903.
Jennifer R. Gross, ed., Ann Lauterbach, Roger L. Conover, and Dawn Ades, Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable, exh. cat. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023), 70, 71, fig. 1.103 (color ill.).

New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Paintings by Mina Loy, Jan. 28-Feb. 18, 1933, cat. 8 (exh. brochure).
Brunswick, ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable, Apr. 6–Sept. 17, 2023, no cat. no; Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Mar. 19–Jun 8, 2024.

The artist; given to her daughter Joella Synara Haweis (1907-2004) and her husband Julien Levy (1906-1981), New York, after 1933 [this and the following according to email from Roger Conover, Sept. 6, 2024; copy in curatorial object file]; upon their divorce and her remarriage, Joella and Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), New York, later Aspen, and Montecito, CA, 1942; Joella Bayer, 1985; given to Roger Conover, Freeport, ME, 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 2024.

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