id: 163924
accession number: 2005.3
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.3
updated: 2025-02-14 13:29:57.589000
Figure (iginga), probably 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lega-style maker. Elephant ivory, tukula, and oil; overall: 16.7 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (6 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2005.3
title: Figure (iginga)
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creation date: probably 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lega-style maker
technique: Elephant ivory, tukula, and oil
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 16.7 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (6 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Language of Beauty in African Art
opening date: 2022-04-03T04:00:00
The Language of Beauty in African Art. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (April 3-July 31, 2022) https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/language-beauty-african-art; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (November 20, 2022-February 27, 2023) https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9344/the-language-of-beauty-in-african-art.
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Charles Ratton, Paris, France
date: ca. 1950s
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Guy Ladriere, Paris, France
date: no date recorded
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Pierre Dartevelle, Paris, France
date: ca. 1980-1983
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The Vranken-Hoet Collection, Brussels, Belgium
date: 1983-2005
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH by purchase
date: 2005 to present
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Rachewiltz, Boris de. Arte Africana. [Rome]: [Istituto Grafico Tiberino], 1967.
page number: 14-15
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Debbaut, Jan, Dominique Favart, and G. van Geertruyen. Utotombo: l'art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges : Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, 25 mars-5 juin 1988. Bruxelles: Palais des beaux-arts, 1988.
page number: 243, cat. 246
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Cornet, Joseph, Angelo Turconi, and Mobutu Sese Seko. Zaire: peuples/art/culture. Anvers: Fonds Mercator, 1989.
page number: 120.
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Biebuyck, Daniel P., and Michel Boulanger. Ethique et beauté Lega au cœur de l'Afrique. Bruxelles: Snoeck-Ducaju, 2002.
page number: 152, cat. 91
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 2006.
page number: 22, 30
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Petridis, Constantine. "Good and Beautiful." Cleveland Museum of Art Member's Magazine. Cleveland Museum of Art, September 2006.
page number: 7-11
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-07
Petridis, Constantine. "New Acquisitions of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art". African Arts. (44) No. 1, Spring 2011.
page number: 53; 56, Fig. 4.
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Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: 240-1
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Felix, Marc Leo. White gold, black hands: ivory sculpture in Congo. Qiquhar, Heilungkiang, China: Gemini Sun, Volume 6, June 2013.
page number: Fig. 27a & b, p. 190-191, 242
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Rondeau, James, Constantijn Petridis, Yaëlle Biro, Herbert M. Cole, Kassim Kone, Babatunde Lawal, Wilfried Van Damme, and Susan Mullin Vogel. The language of beauty in African art. 2022.
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