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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: probably 1800s creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 16.7 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (6 9/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Charles Ratton, Paris, France date: ca. 1950s footnotes: * citations: Guy Ladriere, Paris, France date: no date recorded footnotes: citations: Pierre Dartevelle, Paris, France date: ca. 1980-1983 footnotes: citations: The Vranken-Hoet Collection, Brussels, Belgium date: 1983-2005 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH by purchase date: 2005 to present footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Rachewiltz, Boris de. Arte Africana. [Rome]: [Istituto Grafico Tiberino], 1967. page number: 14-15 url: 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 url: Cornet, Joseph, Angelo Turconi, and Mobutu Sese Seko. Zaire: peuples/art/culture. Anvers: Fonds Mercator, 1989. page number: 120. url: Biebuyck, Daniel P., and Michel Boulanger. Ethique et beauté Lega au cœur de l'Afrique. Bruxelles: Snoeck-Ducaju, 2002. page number: 152, cat. 91 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report. Cleveland, Ohio: The Museum, 2006. page number: 22, 30 url: 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. url: 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 url: 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 url: 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. page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.3/2005.3_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.3/2005.3_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2005.3/2005.3_full.tif