DRC
Height 11 ½ in (29 cm)
PROVENANCE
Karel Plasmans, Brussels, acquired in situ between 1955-1965
Edith and Guillaume Vranken-Hoet, Brussels, acquired from the above in 1991
LITERATURE
François Neyt, Songye. La redoutable statuaire Songye d'Afrique centrale, Antwerp, 2004, pp. 254-255, cat. no. 218
TANZANIA
19th Century
Height 69.5 cm - 71 cm
DRC
PROVENANCE
Pierre Dartevelle
Helene Leloup
Helene Leloup describes in the commentary from her archives, as "an ancient pair of male and female statues, their sexes clearly signified, their faces scarified, their eyes indicated by inlaid beads. These two highly expressive sculptures are among the rarest and most beautiful examples of the unique art of the Nyamwési people. "These rare sculptures accompanied - according to Nancy Nooters - the high-backed seats of the Iramba chiefs.".
MALI
19th Century Height 22 in
PROVENANCE
East Coast Collection
Untitled, 2016
14 1/8" x 11" (36 x 28 cm)
Framed: 21 7/8" x 18 3/8" (55.5 x 46.5 cm)
Signed, Titled and Dated Verso on Label
Unique BCau.17257
IVORY COAST
19th Century
Height 20 in
PROVENANCE
Private Collection
DRC
Height 28cm
PROVENANCE
Peter Loebarth
Peter Liese, Dusseldorf
Medium: oil on paper
Execution date: 2021
Dimensions: 41 x 31 cm
KONGO FIGURE
DRC
Nkisi
Anthromorphic
Height 14cm
Glass, fiber, fetish material, wood
PROVENANCE
Donald Morris Gallery
Pace Primitive
Inv-53-1697
EXHIBITION
New York, "Fetish" Pace African and Oceanic Art, May 2023
DRC
19th Century Height 13 cm
PROVENANCE
Josef Herman
Christie's Amsterdam 2000 Lot 232a
Pace Primitive
NIGERIA
19th Century
Height 10in
standing, Anthropomorphic, couple / pair
PROVENANCE
Leo and Karin Van Oosterom, The Hague/Amsterdam
IVORY COAST
19th Century
Height 6’ 2”
Mother of pearl, wood
PROVENANCE
Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, November, 22, 1979, lot 130.
Collected by Captain Alfred Francis Fuller 1890's
One of three figures collected.
Sotheby's Allan Stone sale at November 15 Lot 43 Third, donated to British Museum 1951
DESCRIPTION FROM THE ARCHIVES
"The present figure is a rare example of the early fusion of traditional African sculptural canons and western visual in uences, executed by a sculptor in the Lagoons Region of Ivory Coast circa 1900. The hairstyle, ringed neck, and scarification marks are consistent with traditional Lagoons region sculptural idioms and ideals of female beauty; however the life-sized scale, naturalistic proportions, and integrally-carved pedestal reveal a European in uence. This is one of three such sculptures presently known, which are so closely comparable stylistically that they can be attributed to the same hand. During his travels in West Africa, Captain Alfred Walter Francis Fuller collected a closely related female figure circa 1900. As his collection focused on Oceania, he donated the figure to the British Museum in 1951 (inv. no. "Af1951,28.1", see Visonà 2005: 60), where it remains. William Fagg surmised that the Fuller figure was carved by an Anyi (Agni) artist in uenced by a naturalistic European style."
SOMALIA
19th Century
Height 8in
PROVENANCE
Marc Ginzberg
PUBLISHED
African Forms: The Traditional Design and Function of Objects, page 104
DRC
Height 7in
PROVENANCE
Herbert Rieser
Roy and Sophie Sieber Collection
BEMBE FIGURE
DRC
19th Century
Height 6in
PROVENANCE
Ex German Collection
DRC
Lomami Basin and Province
Nkisi
Wood, shell, beads, metal(brass tacks), horn
Height 16 in PROVENANCE
Frederic Poutchkovsky
Adrian Schlag
Jacaranda
BRUNEAF XVIII June 4-8 2008
Touching #36, 2017
Graphite on Black Gessoed Paper, Electrified with 15,000 volts
22" x 18" (56 x 45.5 cm)
Framed: 24 1/4" x 20 1/4" (61.5 x 51.5 cm)
Signed, Titled and Dated Verso in Pencil
Unique DG.23803
DRC
Height 9 in
PROVENANCE
Thomas Alexander
John and Nicole Dintenfas
PUBLISHED
Intimate Conversations: African Minitures. Pages 142-143
CHOKWE
Height 2 1/2 in
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's London, December 11,1978
Roy and Sophie Sieber Collection
Marco Breuer (German, b. 1966)
Untitled (S-76), 2005
Chromogenic Paper, exposed/embossed 8 7/16” x 6 1/2” (21.4 x 16.5 cm)
Framed: 18" x 14" (45.7 x 35.6 cm) Signed, Titled and Dated Verso in Pencil Unique MaBr.16101
IVORY COAST
Late 19th – early 20th century
Wood, pigments
Height: 12 inches
PROVENANCE
Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris
Original Ratton purchase certificate available on request
GABON
19th Century
wood, metal
Height: 20 3/4 inches (52.7 cm)
the reverse with a paper label inscribed in black ink with: 3 and another label overlapping with: L-389
Extremely rare style
J. LaPorte, Bordeaux
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, acquired from the above in 1929 (inv. no. "29-12-224")
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Catalogue of a collection of African Art to be sold at auction for the benefit of A Proposed Expedition To Africa By The University Museum in the ballroom of the Barclay Thursday afternoon April Sixteenth: 4 o'clock", April 16, 1936, lot 3 (withdrawn from the auction and sold directly to the below)
Mr. Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. (1878-1956), Philadelphia, acquired from the above
Mrs. Caroll S. Tyson, Philadelphia, by descent from her husband
Helen Tyson Madeira (1916-2014), Gladwyne, Pa., by descent from her mother
EXHIBITED
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Ancient and Primitive Art in Philadelphia Collections, MaySeptember, 1959 (loan no. “L-389”)
