Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Kru Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
Image View:
Overall view from the front
Creator:
unknown (Ivorian)
Location:
exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
before 1912 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ivorian; West African (general)
Style Period:
Kru
Work Type 1:
ceremonial mask
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
wood; vegetable fibers
Technique:
carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Measurements:
69 cm (height)
Subjects:
abstraction; Picasso, Pablo; Guinea Coast; ceremony; ceremonial; dance
Description:
Now in a private collection, previously purchased by Picasso in Marseille in 1912, on a trip with Georges Braque. Both the wood and the vegetable fibers of the dance mask have been blackened. The Kru or Kroo are a West African ethnic group who originated in eastern Liberia and migrated and settled along various points of the West African coast. (Source: Le Fur, Yves, ed.; Through the Eyes of Picasso: Face to Face with African and Oceanic Art, Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2017 (978-2-08-020319-9))
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-KR U-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Kru Mask from Côte d'Ivoire