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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 30, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman | 28 | $****** - ****** | Good | JUKUN ANCESTOR FIGURE, BENUE RIVER VALLEY, NIGERIA |
sculpture
73.7 cm (29 in)
Wood, metal
Hélène Kamer, Paris
Pace Primitive and Ancient Art, New York
Jeffrey B. Soref, New York, acquired from the above
Steven Morris, New York, acquired from the above
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above on September 20, 2005
Galerie Hélène Kamer, Paris, Nigeria, October 12 - October 30, 1971
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, February 13 - July 24, 2011, and traveling: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 14, 2011 - February 12, 2012; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, May 16 - September 2, 2012; Musée du quai Branly, Paris, November 12, 2012 - January 27, 2013
Hélène Kamer, invitation for Nigeria exhibition, 1971
Hélène Kamer, advertisement, Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1971, No. 1, p. 45
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, L'art africain, Paris, 1988, p. 545, fig. 936
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Die Kunst des Schwarzen Afrika, Freiburg, 1989, p. 545, fig. 936
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, L'arte in Africa, Milan, 1991, p. 545, fig. 936
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Art of Africa, New York, 1993, p. 545, fig. 936
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Arte africano, Madrid, 1998, p. 545, fig. 936
Marla C. Berns, Richard Fardon, and Sidney Littlefield Kasfir, eds., Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, Los Angeles, 2011, p. 275, figs. 8.56a,b
