Mother Earth

Provenance

The artist; sold through Frith Street Gallery, London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10, 2025.

Mother Earth

Thomas Schütte

2024

Accession Number

276280

Medium

Glazed ceramic on artist’s steel base

Dimensions

Sculpture: 124.5 × 31 × 40.5 cm (49 1/16 × 12 1/4 × 16 in.); Artist's Steel Base: 100 × 60 × 45 cm (39 3/8 × 23 5/8 × 17 3/4 in.); Overall: 224.5 × 60 × 45.1 cm (88 7/16 × 23 5/8 × 17 13/16 in.)

Classification

sculpture

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Lacy Armour Endowment Fund; purchased with funds provided by Anne Dias Griffin