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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 | 27 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | FANG-MABEA ANCESTOR FIGURE, CAMEROON |
sculpture
Wood, metal
Blair Hughes-Stanton, London, acquired at auction in London in the 1920s
Christie’s, London, October 12, 1976, lot 83, consigned by the above
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired at the above auction with the assistance of Merton D. Simpson, New York
C.W. Post Art Gallery, Greenvale, New York, African Sculpture: the Shape of Surprise, February 17 - March 30, 1980
Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 - February 27, 1994
Leon Underwood, Figures in Wood of West Africa, London, 1947, pls. 31a, 31b, 32
Margaret Trowell, Classical African Sculpture, London, 1954, pl. XXXVIII, fig. A
Leon Underwood, Figures in Wood of West Africa (Revised Edition), London, 1967, pls. 36a, 36b
Margaret Trowell, Classical African Sculpture (Revised Edition), New York, 1970, pl. XXXVIII, fig. A
Louis Perrois, La statuaire Fan, Paris, 1972, p. 227, fig. 149 and pl. 86, no. 9
Raoul Lehuard, "Les ventes", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 20, 1976, p. 48
Louis Perrois, Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, p. 63, fig. 37
Susan M. Vogel, African Sculpture: the Shape of Surprise, Greenvale, New York, 1980, p. 32, cat. no. 110
Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, 1993, n.p. (listed)
John McKesson, "Réflexions sur l’évolution de la sculpture des reliquaires Fang/Reflections on the Evolution of Fang Reliquary Sculpture", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 63, 1987, p. 19
