RICHMOND BARTHÉ (1901-1989)

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ID 1561339
Los 50 | RICHMOND BARTHÉ (1901-1989)
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$ 60 000 – 80 000
RICHMOND BARTHÉ (1901-1989)
Féral Benga
inscribed 'BARTHÉ' (on the base)—stamped 'AP' and '©/86' and inscribed '/37' (along the base)
bronze with brown patina
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high on a 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high base
Modeled in 1935; cast in 1986.




Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1998.



Literature

A. Locke, ed., The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art, Washington, D.C., 1940, p. 74, another example illustrated (as Benga: Dance Figure).
C. Dover, American Negro Art, New York, 1960, n.p., pl. 70, another example illustrated.
Graham Gallery, The Figure in Sculpture: An Exhibition of Fine American and European, 19th and 20th Century Works in Bronze and Marble, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 5, 23, 65, another example illustrated (as Benga, Senegalese Dancer).
G.A. Reynolds, B.J. Wright, Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation, exhibition catalogue, Newark, New Jersey, 1990, p. 122, pl. II, another example illustrated on the cover (as Feral Benga (Benga: Dance Figure)).
D.A. Bailey, R.J. Powell, S. Callow, et al., Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, London, 1997, pp. 73, 178, no. 4, another example illustrated.
L. Jackson, Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, New York, 2002, p. 165.
G. Fabre, M. Feith, eds., Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance, Bloomington, Indiana, 2001, p. 58.
K.N. Pinder, ed., Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History, New York, 2002, p. 318n32.
M.R. Vendryes, Casting Feral Benga: A Biography of Richmond Barthé’s Signature Work, New York, 2003, pp. 1-11, other examples illustrated.
L.S. Sims, Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945, vol. I, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2003, p. 20.
C.D. Wintz, P. Finkelman, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: A-J, vol. I, Oxfordshire, England, 2004, p. 102.
E.B. Higginbotham, H.L. Gates, Jr., eds., African American Lives, Oxford, England, 2004, p. 51.
M.R. Vendryes, Barthé: A Life in Sculpture, Jackson, Mississippi, 2008, pp. 66-72, 75, 185, another example illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery; Long Beach, California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Exultations: African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II, February 1-August 20, 1995, p. 38, illustrated.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture, November 8, 2024-September 14, 2025, pp. 8-9, 151-52, no. 48, illustrated.
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