Allegorie a la Banane
Hassan Musa, Sudanese, born 1951
2001
Acrylic on hardboard
Overall: 47 5/8 × 39 3/4 in. (121 × 101 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Claire and Richard P. Morse 1953 Fund
2008.32
Geography
Place Made: Sudan, Eastern Africa, Africa
Period
21st century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Africa
Painting
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 50.33, Cartographic Encounters, Kenneth Bauer, Spring 2020
Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 1-August 10, 2008; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, September 10-December 10, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, January 21-April 26, 2009.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Seattle: University of Washington Press [Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College], 2008, p. 324, plate 106.
Provenance
The artist, Domessargues, France; sold to present collection, 2008.
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