id:			112585
accession number:	1931.204
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.204
updated:		2025-04-30 11:28:27.887000

Male Figure, by 1931. Totokro Master. Wood; overall: 44.8 x 9.3 x 7.7 cm (17 5/8 x 3 11/16 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House, 1931.204

title:				Male Figure
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creation date:			by 1931
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1931
current location:		108A Sub-Saharan
creditline:			Gift of the African Art Sponsors of Karamu House
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Baule peoples
technique:	wood
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Totokro Master  - maker

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measurements: Overall: 44.8 x 9.3 x 7.7 cm (17 5/8 x 3 11/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
	opening date:   1941-06-23T04:00:00
	<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).

	title:		Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture
	opening date:   1956-09-06T04:00:00
	<i>Primitive to Contemporary Sculpture</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 6-October 31, 1956).

	title:		African Master Carvers: Known and Famous
	opening date:   2017-03-26T04:00:00
	<i>African Master Carvers: Known and Famous</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 16, 2017).

	title:		Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art
	opening date:   2020-11-01T04:00:00
	<i>Second Careers: Two Tributaries in African Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1, 2020-March 14, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Paul Guillaume, Paris, sold to African Art Sponsors of Karamu House, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1929
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	African Art Sponsors of Karamu House, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1929-1931
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	African Art Sponsors of Karamu House, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1931
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1931-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Three Pieces of Negro Sculpture." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>19, no. 3 (March 1932): 38-39.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 38-39; Reproduced: p. 47
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137461

	Petridis, Constantine. "A World of Great Art for Everyone." In <em>Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display.</em> Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke, 104-121. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 119
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	Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. <em>Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 22, reproduced: p. 31, fig. 19, p. 58
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741

	Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth C. <em>Second Careers : Two Tributaries in African Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 22, reproduced: p. 31, fig. 19, p. 58
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090438741

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