id: 168750 accession number: 2010.454 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.454 updated: 2025-02-09 06:48:42.081000 Female Bowl-Bearing Figure, late 1800s-early 1900s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style carver. Wood, glass beads, upholstery studs, plant fiber, and iron; overall: 40.8 x 16.1 x 27.3 cm (16 1/16 x 6 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, René and Odette Delenne Collection, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2010.454 title: Female Bowl-Bearing Figure title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1800s-early 1900s creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1920 current location: 108A Sub-Saharan creditline: René and Odette Delenne Collection, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style carver technique: Wood, glass beads, upholstery studs, plant fiber, and iron department: African Art collection: African Art type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 40.8 x 16.1 x 27.3 cm (16 1/16 x 6 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Tentoonstelling van Kongo-Kunst opening date: 1937-12-24T05:00:00 Tentoonstelling van Kongo-Kunst. Stad Stedelijke Feestzaal. title: Frans M. Olbrechts (1899-1958): In Search of Art in Africa opening date: 2001-12-07T05:00:00 Frans M. Olbrechts (1899-1958): In Search of Art in Africa. Ethnographic Museum (December 7, 2001-March 31, 2002). title: Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture opening date: 2013-10-27T00:00:00 Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 2013-February 9, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Frans M. Olbrechts (1899-1958): In Search of Art in Africa. Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, BE (December 7, 2001-March 31, 2002)', 'opening_date': '2001-12-07T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Tentoonstelling van Kongo-Kunst. Stad Stedelijke Feestzaal, Antwerp, BE (December 24, 1937-January 16, 1938)', 'opening_date': '1937-12-24T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Gaston Heenen [1880-1963], Brussels, BE, sold to Hendrik Elias date: ?–1939 footnotes: citations: (Hendrik Elias [b. 1925], Galerie Elmar, Wieze, BE, sold to René and Odette Delenne) date: 1939–1968 footnotes: citations: René [1901-1998] and Odette Delenne [1925-2012], Brussels, BE, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1968–2010 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2010– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tentoonstelling van Kongo-kunst, exh. cat., Stadsfeestzaal, Antwerpen (December 24, 1937-January 16, 1938). Antwerp: Antwerpsche Propagandaweken, 1937 [cat. 669; not illustrated] page number: url: Antwerpen, Stad Stedelijke Feestzaal, and Antwerpsche Propagandaweken. Tentoonstelling van Kongo-Kunst, cat. 669. Exh. Cat. Antwerp: Antwerpsche Propagandaweken, December 24, 1937-January 16, 1938. page number: Mentioned: cat. 669. url: Olbrechts, Frans M. Plastiek van Kongo. Antwerp/Brussels/Ghent/Leuven: Standaards-Boekhandel, 1946. page number: Reproduced: pl. 108 url: Olbrechets, Frans M., Constantine Petridis, and Daniel P. Biebuyck. Frans M. Olbrechts (1899-1958): In Search of Art in Africa, cat. 53. Exh. Cat. Antwerp: Ethnographic Museum, December 7, 2001-March 31, 2002. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: [p. 165] cat. 53 url: Petridis, Constantine. "René and Odette Delenne." In Tribal Art XV-4, no. 61 (Autumn 2011): 119. page number: Reproduced: p. 119, fig. 4; mentioned: p. 122 url: Petridis, Constantine, et al. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2013, 30, 79, 82-83, 108. page number: Mentioned: pp. 30, 79-80, 108, 114 ; reproduced: p. 82-83, cat. 26 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterworks on Loan: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Cleveland Museum of Art: First Quarter 2016. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016. page number: Reproduced p. 16 url: Petridis, Constantine. "Inscriptions: Establishing a Pre-1937 Acquisition Date for 1,525 Central African Sculptures." Tribal: The Magazine of Tribal Art XXIV: 4, no. 85 (Autumn, 2017): 127, 130-131. page number: p. 127, p. 130 color repr., p. 131 sketch url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.454/2010.454_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.454/2010.454_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.454/2010.454_full.tif