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Female Figure

Female Figure

late 1800s-early 1900s

Description

An artistic melting pot, the Bondoukou region in northeastern Côte d’Ivoire near the border with Ghana is inhabited by several ethnic groups whose cultures and artistic styles often intermingle. This figure’s rounded shapes and delicate surface decoration––which seem to imitate body scarifications––closely resemble the style of Baule carvings. The figure’s meaning and function remain a mystery.
  • Henri Kamer
    ?—1972
    Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1972–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. No. 91.
    “New Acquisitions.” African Arts 6, no. 4 (Summer 1973), p. 84-85. Repr. p. 85. www.jstor.org
    Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1972.” The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 3 (March 1973): 63-115. Cat. 25. www.jstor.org
    Petridis, Constantine. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by the University of Washington Press, 2003. P. 49, color plate 9.
    Petridis, Constantine. "A New Installation for African Art in Cleveland." Tribal 3, no. 36 (Autumn/Winter 2004): 68-73.
    https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jun/21/freedom-and-flares-west-africas-photographic-master-in-pictures-rachidi-bissiriou Reproduced: cat. 9, p. 48 - 49
  • Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).
    CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 91, repr.
    CMA 1973: "Year in Review 1972," CMA Bulletin LX (March, 1973), p. 106, no. 25, repr. p. 105
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.343