By Lee Rosenbaum | The Wall Street Journal | 25 March 2015
“With their one-two punch of physical beauty and formal power, the carved wooden figures, helmets and masks energizing the Cleveland Museum of Art’s ‘Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa’ … will knock you out, even though you won’t know exactly what hit you…”
Cleveland Museum of Art corrects a case of mistaken cultural identity in African ‘Senufo’ exhibition
By Steven Litt | The Cleveland Plain Dealer | 3 March 2015
“It’s unusual to see a major art museum exhibition whose big premise is, Oops, we goofed…”
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Sorobango, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Raymond A. Silverman “Performance of a Do masquerader wearing a female mask known locally as ciemve or domuso, in the town of Sorobango, December 20, 1987.” Photograph [mapsmarker marker=”11″]
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Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire [reported location of photograph] Dominique Darbois Photograph from which Robert Goldwater published a cut-out as “Dancer with face mask” in Senufo Sculpture from West Africa (1964: 30, cat. 21), 1954 Photograph [Senufo Unbound, 98, Figure 27] [mapsmarker marker=”12″]
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Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire [location associated with photograph of object] Unidentified artist Face mask Wood 35.6 cm New Orleans Museum of Art, museum purchase with funds from an anonymous donor, 95.63 Reported provenance: Photographed by Dominique Darbois, Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire, 1954; Entwistle, London / Paris, 1995 [Senufo Unbound, 98, Plate 64] [mapsmarker marker=”13″]
PREVIEW: Ouazomon: Face Mask Attributed to Sabariko Koné (The Cleveland Museum of Art 1989.48)
Face mask attributed to Sabariko Koné The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989.48 H. 31.6 cm Reported provenance: James Freeman, Kyoto, Japan, 1989 Photo: © The Cleveland Museum of Art, photography Howard Agriesti Ouazomon: Face Mask Attributed to Sabariko Koné (The Cleveland Museum of Art 1989.48) In the spring of 1989 James Freeman showed this face mask […]