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Fountain of Blood
1961
Malangatana Ngwenya
Malangatana Ngwenya (Mozambican, 1936–2011)
Contemporary Art
Fountain of Blood, 1961. Malangatana Ngwenya (Mozambican, 1936–2011). Oil on fiberboard; framed: 119.4 x 147.3 cm (47 x 58 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis, Jr. 2012.67 © Malangatana Ngwenya / DALRO, Johannesburg / ARS, NY Fountain of Blood was featured in the 1962 First International Congress of Culture exhibition, a major festival that showcased African art in Europe, and was one of Ngwenya's first exhibited works outside Mozambique.
- Maker/Artist
- Malangatana Ngwenya
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Medium
- oil, fiberboard
- Dimensions
- Framed: 119.4 x 147.3 cm (47 x 58 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in black on back of fiberboard: "Malangatana Valente/Ngwenya/20. The fountain of bood/BALOYI/aod aloim quedis Lourenco Marques" Signed in lower left corner of recto: "MALANGATANA/61"
- Departments
- Contemporary Art
- Accession Number
- 2012.67
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis, Jr.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 229A Contemporary
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