Mask

19th century

Fang, African

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Title Mask

Artwork Date 19th century

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. African

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Fang

Medium Wood and kaolin

Dimensions Overall: 14 × 10 × 12 1/4 inches (35.6 × 25.4 × 31.1 cm) Mount: 1 × 9 × 9 inches (2.5 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm) Including mount: 23 × 10 × 12 1/4 inches (58.4 × 25.4 × 31.1 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, General Endowment Fund, Benson and Edith Ford Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, Conrad H. Smith Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1983.24

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Provenance

Paul Guillaume (Paris, France)

Helena Rubinstein Collection

Franklin Family Collection

(Valerie Franklin)

1983-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935, no. 418.

Radin, P., J. Sweeney. African Folktales and Sculpture. Bollingen Foundation series, vol 32, New York: Pantheon Books, Inc. [for Bollingen Foundation, Inc.], 1952, pl. 20.

Frohlich, W. Beitrage zur Afrikanischen Kunst. Koln, Komissions-Verlag, E.J. Brill, G.M.B.H., 1966, pl LCII-B.

The Helena Rubenstein Collection of African and Oceanic Art. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Sale no. 2429, April 1966, no. 221, pp. 202-03.

"Family Art Game," Detroit News (April 14, 1985): p. 22 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. DIA. New York, 1985, p. 74, p. 75 (ill.).

African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 49.

Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power. Exh. cat., the Jewish Museum. New York, 2014, p. 114 (ill.).

Joubert, Helene, ed. Hélèna Rubinstein: Madame's Collection. Exh. cat., Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. Paris, 2019, pp. 134-135, (ill. 116).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Fang, African, Mask, 19th century, wood and kaolin. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, General Endowment Fund, et al., 1983.24.