ID 1158333
Lot 57 | Figure de reliquaire Kota
Estimate value
€ 80 000 – 120 000
Gabon
Hauteur : 47 cm. (18 ½ in.)
Provenance
Collection Antony Innocent Moris (1866-1951), Paris
Collection Josef Müller (1887-1977), Soleure, acquis auprès de ce dernier le 22 février 1939
Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève (inv. n° 1019-4-A)
Literature
Chaffin, A. et F., L'art kota. Les figures de reliquaire, Meudon, 1979, p. 120, n° 37
Perrois, L., Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du bassin de l’Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, p. 159, n° 149
Lachenal, F. et Savary, C., Westafrikanische Tage, Ingelheim am Rhein, 1982, p. 72, n° 49
Perrois, L., Art ancestral du Gabon dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Ancestral Art of Gabon from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1985, pp. 70-71 et 190, pl. 6, n° 8
Clark, M., et Azara, P., La Condition Humaine - Le Rêve d'une Ombre, Museo d'Història de la ciudad, Barcelona, 2004, p. 96
Flubacher, C. et al., Surréalisme et arts primitifs. Un air de famille, Ostfildern, 2014, p. 129
Martin, S. et al., Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, Paris, 2017, p. 93, n° 174
Exhibited
Ingelheim am Rhein, Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Center GmbH, Westafrikanische Tage, 24 avril - 31 mai 1982
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Ancestral Art of Gabon from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, 26 janvier - 15 juin 1986 ; Los Angeles, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 28 août 1986 - 22 mars 1987
Crans-Montana, Lens, Surréalisme et arts primitifs. Un air de famille, 13 juin - 5 octobre 2014
Paris, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, 3 octobre 2017 - 21 janvier 2018
Further details
Kota reliquary figure, Gabon
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