id: 132047 accession number: 1954.602 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.602 updated: 2023-03-09 12:47:56.501000 Pendant: Face, 1900s. Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, possibly Baule-style goldsmith. Gold; overall: 7.6 x 5 cm (3 x 1 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1954.602 title: Pendant: Face title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1900s creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1954 current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, possibly Baule-style goldsmith technique: Gold department: African Art collection: African Art type: Jewelry find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 7.6 x 5 cm (3 x 1 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Imagination of Primitive Man opening date: 1962-01-18T05:00:00 The Imagination of Primitive Man. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (January 18-February 25, 1962). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Baule: African Art/Western Eyes opening date: 1997-08-30T00:00:00 Baule: African Art/Western Eyes. Yale University Art Gallery (organizer) (August 30, 1997-January 4, 1998); The Art Institute of Chicago (February 14-May 10, 1998). title: Baule: African Art/Western Eyes opening date: 1998-09-11T00:00:00 Baule: African Art/Western Eyes. Museum for African Art, NY (September 11, 1998-January 3, 1999); National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (February 9-May 16, 1999). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, 1959, Exhibition of Masks,, February 10-April 5, 1959, cat. D-21, repr. p. 49.
Philadelphia, University Museum, 1959: The University of Pennsylvania, The Seven Metals of Africa, November 12, 1959-Jan. 12, 1960; the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 21-July 24, 1960, no. F-4.
Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, The Imagination of Primitive Man, January 18-February 25, 1962, cat. no. 31B.
CMA 1991: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, June 7-September 8, 1991.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 8/30/97 - 1/4/98. Art Institute of Chicago, 2/14/98 - 5/19/98. NY: The Museum for African Art, 9/11/98 - 1/3/99. Washington, DC: National Museum for African Art, 2/9/99 - 5/16/99, Baule: African Art: Western Eyes. color repr. p. 201. --- PROVENANCE C. Géraudel date: ?-1951 footnotes: citations: Nasli Heeramaneck (Galleries), New York, NY date: 1951-1954 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art by purchase date: 1954-present footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Cast using the lost-wax method, gold objects are the only Baule art forms associated with ancestral spirits. Usually stored in suitcases or pots, a collection of gold adornments (aja) are displayed on important occasions such as funerals. They are laid out around the corpse before burial as a sign of respect and their family's wealth. Faces such as this pendant are said to be idealized portraits of friends or lovers. This depiction of a man has a beard and elaborately styled hair. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 391 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n72 Plass, Margaret. 7 Metals of Africa: [a Traveling Exhibtion, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the University Museum]. Philadelphia: [publisher not identified], 1959. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 26, cat. F-5 url: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. The Imagination of Primitive Man: A Survey of the Arts of the Non-Literate Peoples of the World. Kansas City, Mo: The Museum, 1962. page number: Mentioned: p. 24, cat. no. 31 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 302 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n326 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 302 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n326 Royal Ontario Museum. Masks: The Many Faces of Man : an Exhibition Presented by the Division of Art and Archaeology of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada. Toronto: The Museum, 1959. page number: Mentioned: p. 42, cat. no. D 21; Reproduced: p. 49, cat. no. D 21 url: Wixom, WIlliam D. "African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art." African Arts. 10, no. 3. (April 1977) 16-25. page number: Reproduced: p. 17, fig 2; mentioned: p. 19 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3335296 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 410 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430 Vogel, Susan Mullin. Baule: African Art, Western Eyes. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 299; Reproduced: p. 201 url: Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 18, p. 66 - 67 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.602/1954.602_full.tif