ID 965075
Lot 55 | MARCELLE ACKEIN (FRENCH, 1882-1952)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
Joueur de balafon
signed 'ACKEIN' (lower right); signed again and inscribed with title 'Ackein/ Joueur de/ balafon/ (guinée)' (on the reverse)
oil on cavnas
80 ½ x 47 in. (205 x 119 cm.)
Ackein, M.
Provenance
with Eric Lelief, La Châtre.
Acquired from the above by Félix Marcilhac in 1977.
His sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 11 March 2014, lot 57.
Literature
Lynne Thornton, Les peintres de l'Afrique noire, 1982, illustrated p. 15.
Lynne Thornton, Les Africanistes, Peintres voyageurs, 1860-1960, Paris, 1990, p. 88, illustrated p. 101.
exh. cat. Coloniales, Musée municipal (later Musée des Années Trente), Boulogne-Billancourt, 1990, illustrated p. 24.
Exhibited
Boulogne-Billancourt, Musée municipal (later Musée des Années Trente), Coloniales, 7 November 1989-31 January 1990.
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Orientalism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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