id: 296866
accession number: 2018.34
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.34
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Dance staff for Èṣù (Ògò Èlẹ́gba), 1800s. Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker. Wood, leather, cowrie shells, seeds, and natural fiber; 62 cm (24 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2018.34
title: Dance staff for Èṣù (Ògò Èlẹ́gba)
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creation date: 1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1899
current location: 108C Akan & Yoruba
creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Africa, West Africa, Nigeria, Yorùbá-style maker
technique: Wood, leather, cowrie shells, seeds, and natural fiber
department: African Art
collection: African Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: 62 cm (24 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: African art rotation
opening date: 2019-02-20T05:00:00
African art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20, 2019-October 5, 2020).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': "Utotombo: L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges. Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (March 25 - June 5, 1988)", 'opening_date': '1988-03-25T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Lucien Van de Velde [1910–1996], Anvers, Belgium, sold to Dr. Marc Lorre)
date: ?–1974
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Mrs. Marc Lorre, Antwerp, Belgium, sold to Christie’s
date: 1974–2012
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(Christie’s, Paris, France, December 11, 2012, no. 59, sold to a private collector)
date: 2012
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Private collection, Paris, France, sold to Christie’s
date: 2018
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(Christie’s, Paris, France, April 8, 2018, Sale 16061 Arts d'Afrique, d'Océanie et d'Amérique, no. 58 sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: 2018
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2018–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Debbaut, Jan, Dominique Favart, and G. van Geertruyen. Utotombo: l'art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges. Exh. Cat. Brussels: Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, March 25-June 5, 1988.
page number: Reproduced: p. 163, cat. 98
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Drewal, Henry John, John Pemberton, Rowland Abiodun, and Allen Wardwell. Yoruba: Nine centuries of African art and thought. New York: Center for African Art in association with H.N. Abrams, 1989.
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Nzewi, Ugochukwu-Smooth. “Acquisitions 2018: African Art.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 8-9.
page number: Reproduced: P. 9; Mentioned: P. 8, 9.
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IMAGES
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