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SONGYE FETISH FIGURE 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

NYAMWEZI - IRAMBA COUPLE 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.".

DOGON FIGURE MALI 19th Century Height 22 in PROVENANCE East Coast Collection

BEN CAUCHI (New Zealander, b. 1974) Untitled, 2016 Ambrotype 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

BAULE FIGURE IVORY COAST 19th Century Height 20 in PROVENANCE Private Collection

TEKE FIGURE DRC Height 28cm PROVENANCE Peter Loebarth Peter Liese, Dusseldorf

JORDY KERWICK 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

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YAKA FIGURE DRC 19th Century Height 13 cm PROVENANCE Josef Herman Christie's Amsterdam 2000 Lot 232a Pace Primitive

A PAIR OF YORUBA IBEJI FIGURES NIGERIA 19th Century Height 10in standing, Anthropomorphic, couple / pair PROVENANCE Leo and Karin Van Oosterom, The Hague/Amsterdam

LAGOON PEOPLES 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 influences, 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 influence. 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 influenced by a naturalistic European style."

BONI SPOON SOMALIA 19th Century Height 8in PROVENANCE Marc Ginzberg PUBLISHED African Forms: The Traditional Design and Function of Objects, page 104

LULUA FIGURE DRC Height 7in PROVENANCE Herbert Rieser Roy and Sophie Sieber Collection

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19th Century Height 6in PROVENANCE Ex German Collection

SONGYE FIGURE 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

DAVID GOLDES (AMERICAN, B. 1947) 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

SALAMPASU MASK DRC Height 9 in PROVENANCE Thomas Alexander John and Nicole Dintenfas PUBLISHED Intimate Conversations: African Minitures. Pages 142-143

MORTAR 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

LIGBI ARTIST MASK IVORY COAST Late 19th – early 20th century Wood, pigments Height: 12 inches PROVENANCE Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris Original Ratton purchase certificate available on request

KOTA 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 PROVENANCE 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, May September, 1959 (loan no. “L-389”)

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