Cimier Banda - photo 1

Cimier Banda

Lot 13
06.03.2024 15:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1158275
Lot 13 | Cimier Banda
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
Cimier Banda

Guinée

Hauteur : 139 cm. (54 ¾ in.)





Provenance

Collection André Lhote (1885-1962), Paris

Ferri-Roudillon-Beurdeley, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, Collection André Lhote et à divers, 17 décembre 1979, lot 212

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève (inv. n° 1001-24)



Literature

Sweeney, J., African Negro Art, New York, 1935, p. 44, n° 305 (non. ill.)

Evans, W., African Negro Art. A Corpus of Photographs by Walker Evans, New York, 1935, p. 5, n° 49

Fagg, W., Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, Paris, 1980, p. 34

Wilhelem, R., Le guidargus de l'art primitif, Paris, 1985, p. 37

Newton, D. et Waterfield, H., Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller/Tribal Sculpture. Masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1995, pp. 48 et 49

Hahner-Herzog, I. et al., L’autre visage. Masques africains de la collection Barbier-Mueller/African Masks. The Barbier-Mueller Collection/Das zweite Gesicht. Afrikanische Masken aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Munich, 1997, pp. 87 et 250, pl. 25, n° 68

Webb, V.-L., Perfect Documents. Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, New York, 2000, plat recto et p. 59, n° 7

Abramovic, N. et Hergott, F., La création du monde. Fernand Léger et l’art africain dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 2000, p. 29, n° 37

Berliner, D., Baga. Mémoires religieuses, Genève, 2013, p. 85, n° 7

Berliner, D., Baga. Mémoires religieuses, Genève, 2016, p. 85, n° 7

Petridis, C. et al., The Language of Beauty in African Art, New Haven, 2022, pp. 256 et 328, n° 225



Exhibited

New York, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, African Negro Art, 18 mars - 19 mai 1935 ; Manchester, Currier gallery of art, 10 juin - 8 juillet 1935 ; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 23 juillet - 2 septembre 1935 ; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 28 septembre - 27 octobre 1935

Soleure, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, 1er janvier - 31 décembre 1980

Genève, MAH - Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, La création du monde. Fernand Léger et l’art africain dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, 25 octobre 2000 - 25 février 2001

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Découvrez les Baga, 17 octobre 2013 - 30 mars 2014

Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, MAAOA - Musée d'arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens, Baga. Art de Guinée. Collection du musée Barbier-Mueller, 13 mai - 18 septembre 2016



Further details

Banda headdress, Guinea
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Guinea, Africa
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