Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Kru Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
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Image View:
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Detail, head and face from the side
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Creator:
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unknown (Ivorian)
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Location:
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exhibition: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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before 1912 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Ivorian; West African (general)
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Style Period:
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Kru
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Work Type 1:
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ceremonial mask
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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wood; vegetable fibers
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Technique:
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carving (processes); construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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69 cm (height)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; Picasso, Pablo; Guinea Coast; ceremony; ceremonial; dance
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Description:
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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))
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-KRU-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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