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A black and white photograph of a Malian man and child standing in front of a patterned backdrop.

A 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
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
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
  • 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
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
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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

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