P1997.7: Untitled (portrait of man and daughter)
PhotographsA black and white photograph shows a Malian man and child standing on an unpaved surface in front of a stylized leaf patterned backdrop. The man is wearing a light-colored striped suit with a tie, leather shoes and holds a pith helmet in his left hand. With his right hand he holds the hand of the young girl who is wearing a light-colored sleeveless dress with a lace apron, she is wearing a necklace of heavy beads.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1997.7
- People
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Seydou Keïta, African (Bamako, Mali (formerly French Sudan) 1923 - 2001 Paris, France)
- Title
- Untitled (portrait of man and daughter)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1956-1957, printed later
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Mali, Bamako
- Culture
- Malian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/173025
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 56.5 x 39.5 cm (22 1/4 x 15 9/16 in.)
sheet: 58.2 x 50.2 cm (22 15/16 x 19 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: yes: b.r. in ink: Seydou Keïta
- inscription: recto, lower left, black ink, in artist's hand: 1956 a 1957
- inscription: recto, lower right, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: Seydou Keita
- inscription: verso, lower center, graphite: AM 656
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Peter Soriano, New York, New York, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1997.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter Soriano
- Accession Year
- 1997
- Object Number
- P1997.7
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Seydou Keita, Centre National de la Photographie (Paris, France, 1995), plate 45
- In/sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY, 1996)
Exhibition History
- A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
- Clay—Modeling African Design, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/01/2019 - 10/18/2021
Verification Level
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