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Artist: El Anatsui, Ghanaian, born 1944

Society Woman’s Cloth (Gold)

2006

Aluminum bottle caps and copper wire

396.24 × 665.48 cm (156 × 262 in.)
Gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971, in honor of Robert Farris Thompson, B.A. 1955, M.A. 1961, Ph.D. 1965
2018.115.1
Status: 
On view
Culture: 
Ghanian
Period: 
21st century
Classification: 
Sculpture
Provenance: 

purchased from Jack Shainman Gallery

Bibliography: 

“Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2018.pdf (accessed December 1, 2018).

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.