Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Wee Female Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
Image View:
Overall view from front left
Creator:
unknown (Ivorian sculptor)
Location:
repository: FABA (Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte) (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
before 1914 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Ivorian
Style Period:
Wee
Work Type 1:
ceremonial mask
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
wood
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
24 cm (height) x 14.5 cm (width) x 14 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction; Guinea Coast
Description:
The Wee (or Gere) are Kru-speaking people from the Guinea Coast. This mask was owned by Picasso, purchased in 1914 from his friend, the dealer Paul Guillaume (1891-1934). Dealer of Chaim Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. The Wee people use such masks to resolve disputes in their communities. (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-MW A-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Wee Female Mask from Côte d'Ivoire