id: 136279 accession number: 1960.169 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.169 updated: 2025-06-12 20:08:49.585000 Face Mask with Female Figure (satimbe), early to mid-1900s. Africa, West Africa, Mali, Dogon-style blacksmith-carver. Wood and organic materials; overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund, 1960.169 title: Face Mask with Female Figure (satimbe) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: early to mid-1900s creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1950 current location: creditline: James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, West Africa, Mali, Dogon-style blacksmith-carver technique: Wood and organic materials department: African Art collection: African Art type: Mask find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA "Year in Review" 1960: Bulletin, 47 (December 1960), p. 250, no. 11, repr. p. 246.', 'opening_date': '1960-12-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY, to 1960) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Damase, Jacques. Sculpture of the Tellem and the Dogon, exh. cat. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1960), no. 40. page number: url: Wixom, William D. 1977. “African Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” African Arts 10, no. 3: 16-25, 88, fig. 11. page number: url: Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. "An Obsession with Heads: The Impact of African Arts, Anthropology, and Photography on the Works of Alberto Giacometti," Medium (May 2022). page number: url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/an-obsession-with-heads-968e8e8c2d30 Wixom, William. "Two African Tribal Sculptures." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 3 (March 1961): 39-45 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 42 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142440 Robbins, Warren M. African Art in American Collections = L'art Africain Dans Les Collections Americaines. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 55, no. 22 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 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 Petridis, Constantijn. South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. page number: Reproduced: cat. 2, p. 34 - 35 url: Robbins, Warren M. African sculpture. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 55, number 22. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.169/1960.169_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.169/1960.169_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.169/1960.169_full.tif