Bogolanfini

ca. 1995

African Art

Not on view
Medium

Handspun cotton and mud-based dyes

Dimensions

54 1/2 × 106 in. (138.4 × 269.2 cm)

Credit Line

The Heinz Family Fund

Accession Number

2022.55.3

Geography

between San, Djenné, and Segou, Mali

Culture

Bamana

Period

20th century

Classification

Textiles

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Provenance
Commissioned in Jonka (Djonka) by Kandjoura (Kandioura) Coulibaly, probably Bamako, Mali about 1995 [see note 1]; sold to Bernard Gardi, Basel, Switzerland, 2000; sold to Duncan Clarke (Alfie’s Antiques Market), London, 2019; sold through Emilie Irving (Xenomania), New York, to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2022

Note 1: Coulibaly commissioned Bogolanfini when he was working as a costume designer on the film Guimba (1995). He told Gardi that the cloth was made by a woman artist in the region of Jonka (Djonka), which is between the towns of San, Djenné and Segou (Mali), where the people are Manyanka, Bwa and Bamana. (email from Duncan Clarke to the Gallery, June 23, 2022, copy in curatorial file)
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined

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