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Maillet de gong lawlé Baulé

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Lot 1 | Maillet de gong lawlé Baulé
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Maillet de gong lawlé Baulé

Côte d’Ivoire

Hauteur : 25.6 cm. (10 in.)





Provenance

Collection Helena Rubinstein (1872-1965), Paris/New York

Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc, New York, The Helena Rubinstein Collection. African and Oceanic Art. Part One, 21 avril 1966, lot 30

Harry A. Franklin (1903-1983), Beverly Hills

Valerie Franklin-Nordin (1950-2020), Beverly Hills, transmis par descendance

Sotheby's, New York, The Harry A. Franklin Family Collection of African Art, 21 avril 1990, lot 109

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève (inv. n° 1007-219)



Literature

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Portraits of Madame, Los Angeles, 1976

Baldwin, J. et al., Perspectives. Angles on African Art, New York, 1987, p. 152

Brincard, M.-T., Sounding Forms. African Musical Instruments, New York, 1989, p. 149, n° 100

Loucou, J.-N., Glaze, A. et al., Arts de la Côte d’Ivoire dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of Côte d’Ivoire from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1993, vol. I, p. 307, n° 318 et vol. II, p. 142, n° 240

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, p. 88

Bacquart, J.-B., L’art tribal d’Afrique noire/The Tribal Arts of Africa, Paris, 1998, p. 49, n° 6

Roger-Vasselin, B. et Rinçon, L., « Sculpture africaine. Les mythes d'origine », in L'Œil, Paris, février 2003, n° 544, p. 43

Alleva, A. d’ et al., Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller/Arts of Africa and Oceania. Highlights from the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2007, pp. 144-145 et 387

Boyer, A.-M., Baule, Milan, 2008, p. 130, n° 51

Morin, F., « L’Afrique aux mille visages/Africa of a Thousand Faces », in Tribal Art Magazine, Arquennes, 2017, Hors-série n° 7, p. 44, n° 41

Barley, N. et al., Les collections Barbier-Mueller. 110 ans de passion, Grenoble, 2017, p. 131, n° 27

Boyer, A.-M., « Transmission, tradition et authenticité dans les arts africains/ Transmission, Tradition and Authenticity in African Arts », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2021, n° 22, p. 93, n° 2

Petridis, C. et al., The Language of Beauty in African Art, New Haven, 2022, p. 216, n° 181



Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Portraits of Madame, 29 janvier - 4 mars 1976 ; Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum, 26 mars - 27 avril 1976 ; Los Angeles, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 18 mai - 20 juin 1976

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Perspectives. Angles on African Art, 21 février - 26 avril 1987 ; New York, Center for African Art, 18 septembre 1987 - 3 janvier 1988 ; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, 31 janvier - 27 mars 1988

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, Sounding Forms. African Musical Instruments/Afrique. Formes sonores, 26 avril - 18 juin 1989 ; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 16 juillet - 10 septembre 1989 ; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 7 octobre - 5 décembre 1989 ; Paris, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée national des arts africains et océaniens, 25 janvier - 20 mars 1990

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts de la Côte d’Ivoire dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller, 6 mai - 30 septembre 1993

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts de la Côte d'Ivoire, autour des Yohouré, 24 novembre 2016 - 30 avril 2017

Paris, Grand Palais, Biennale des Antiquaires, Les collections Barbier-Mueller. 110 ans de passion, 11 - 17 septembre 2017



Further details

Baule lawle gong mallet, Ivory Coast
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Brass, Wood
Place of origin:Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
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