Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Kru Mask from Côte d'Ivoire

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Kru Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
Image View: 
Detail, head and face from the side
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-KRU-A03
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.