LOT DETAILS

Materials:

wood

Measurements:

25.35 in. (64.40 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Bois de Vincennes, Exposition Coloniale lnternationale de Paris , 1931 New York, The Center for African Art, African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collection , 7 May - 7 September 1986 London, The Royal Academy, The Art of a Continent , 4 October 1995 - 21 January 1996 New York, The Museum for African Art, Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History, 30 October 1996-26 January, 1997 Brussels, Espace Culturel BBL, Mains de Maîtres/Masterhands: A Ia Découverte des Sculpteurs d'Afrique , 22 March - 24 June 2001 Houston, The Menil Collection, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Lubo, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa, 26 September 2008 - 4 January 2009 [additional venues]: - Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1 March - 7 June 2009 - San Francisco, De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 27 June 2009 - 11 October 2009

Literature:

Commissariat Général, Exposition Coloniale lnternationale De Paris en 1931 , Paris, 1931 Hôtel Drouot, Sculptures d'Afrique, d'Amérique, d'Océanie , Paris, 7th May 1931 Susan Mullin Vogel, African Aesthetics: The Carlo Monzino Collectio n, New York, 1986 Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat and Lucien Stephan, Art of Africa , New York, 1993 Egldlo Cossa and Jean-Louis Paudrat, eds., Passion d'Afrique: L'Art Africain dans les Collections ltaliennes , Milan, 2009 Bernard de Grunne, Mains de Maîtres/Masterhands: A Ia Découverte des Sculpteurs d'Afrique, Brussels, 2001 Mary Nooter Roberts et al, Luba Art and the Making of History, New York, 1996 Constantin Petridis, Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa , Brussels, 2008 Tom Phillips (ed.), Africa: The Art of a Continent, London , 1995 Privately Printed Portfolio, The Mendès-France Collection , Paris, c.1974

Provenance:

André Lefèvre, Paris. Sold Hôtel Drouot Paris, 7 May 1931, lot 97. René Mendès-France, Paris, acquired from the above. Morris Pinto, Paris and New York. Sold Sotheby’s London, 16 June 1980, lot 198. Carlo Monzino, Lugano, thence by descent. With Entwistle, London. Private Collection, USA. With Entwistle, London