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)
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creation date:			early to mid-1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1950
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creditline:			James Albert and Mary Gardiner Ford Memorial Fund
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culture:	Africa, West Africa, Mali, Dogon-style blacksmith-carver
technique:	Wood and organic materials
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Mask
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measurements: Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty
	opening date:   1960-11-30T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

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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'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY, to 1960)
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Damase, Jacques. Sculpture of the Tellem and the Dogon, exh. cat. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1960), no. 40.
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	Wixom, William D. 1977. “African Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>African Arts 10</em>,  no. 3: 16-25, 88, fig. 11.
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	Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. "An Obsession with Heads: The Impact of African Arts, Anthropology, and Photography on the Works of Alberto Giacometti," <em>Medium </em>(May 2022).
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	url:		https://medium.com/cma-thinker/an-obsession-with-heads-968e8e8c2d30

	Wixom, William. "Two African Tribal Sculptures." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>48, no. 3 (March 1961): 39-45
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 42
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142440

	Robbins, Warren M. <em>African Art in American Collections = L'art Africain Dans Les Collections Americaines</em>. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 55, no. 22
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 410
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n430

	Petridis, Constantijn. <em>South of the Sahara: selected works of African art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. 2, p. 34 - 35
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	Robbins, Warren M. <em>African sculpture</em>. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2005.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 55, number 22.
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