FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE KOTA-SHAMAYE - photo 1
FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE KOTA-SHAMAYE - photo 2

FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE KOTA-SHAMAYE

Lot 1
20.10.2022 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Sold
€ 214 200
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 822195
Lot 1 | FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE KOTA-SHAMAYE
Estimate value
€ 100 000 – 150 000
FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE KOTA-SHAMAYE

GABON

Hauteur : 37.5 cm. (14 3/4 in.)





Provenance

Alain de Monbrison, Paris

Collection Béatrice et Patrick Caput, Paris, acquis avant 1989



Literature

LaGamma, A., Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p. 223, n° 58

Neyt, F., Fleuve Congo. Arts d’Afrique centrale, correspondances et mutations des formes, Paris, 2010, p. 183, n° 120

Dulon, B. et Perrois, L., Ancêtres Kota / Kota Ancestors, Montreuil, 2011, p. 33, n° 4

Plisnier, V. et Caput, P., Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d'une collection, Milan, 2016, pp. 54-55, 240 et 265

Le Fur, Y., Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, Paris, 2017, p. 90, n° 149



Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary, 2 octobre 2007 - 2 mars 2008

Paris, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Fleuve Congo. Arts d’Afrique centrale, correspondances et mutations des formes, 22 juin - 3 octobre 2010

New York, Friedman & Vallois Gallery, Kota Ancestors, 11 mai - 11 juin 2011

Paris, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Ancêtres Kota, 7 septembre - 8 octobre 2011

Paris, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d'une collection, 4 - 24 novembre 2016

Paris, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, 3 octobre 2017 - 21 janvier 2018



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