MARCELLE ACKEIN (FRENCH, 1882-1952)

Lot 55
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ID 965075
Lot 55 | MARCELLE ACKEIN (FRENCH, 1882-1952)
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£ 50 000 – 80 000
MARCELLE ACKEIN (FRENCH, 1882-1952)
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.
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