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SCEPTRE TSHOKWE

Lot 12
20.10.2022 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
€ 80 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 822205
Lot 12 | SCEPTRE TSHOKWE
Estimate value
€ 80 000 – 120 000
SCEPTRE TSHOKWE

ANGOLA

Hauteur : 42 cm. (16 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris, acquis avant 1930

Guy Ladrière, Paris

Alain de Monbrison, Paris, en 2009

Collection Béatrice et Patrick Caput, Paris, acquis en 2012



Literature

Lavachery, H. et Maes, J., Art nègre, Bruxelles / Paris, 1930, n° 37 (centre)

Sweeney, J., African Negro Art, New York, 1935, n° 590 (non ill.)

Evans, W., African Negro Art. A Corpus of Photographs, New York, 1936, n° 469 et 470

Marvel, E., Radin, P. et Sweeney, J., African Folktales and Sculpture, New York, 1952, n° 101-102

Schmalenbach, W., L'art nègre, Bâle, 1953, p. 163, n° 143

Plass, M., African Tribal Sculpture, Philadelphie, 1956, n° 38A (non ill.)

Kamer, H. et H., Première exposition rétrospective internationale des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, Cannes, 1957, n° 305

Sweeney, J., African Sculpture, Princeton, 1970, n° 101-102

Bastin, M.-L., La sculpture tshokwe, Meudon, 1982, p. 198, n° 117

Falgayrettes-Leveau, C., Art et mythologie. Figures tshokwe, Paris, 1988, p. 82

Monbrison (de), A., Le salon international des arts premiers. Parcours des mondes, Paris, 2009, p. 107

Plisnier, V. et Caput, P., Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d'une collection, Milan, 2016, pp. 62-65

Foster, A., « Très recherché symbole de pouvoir » in La Gazette Drouot, n° 30, Paris, 7 septembre 2018, plat recto et p. 10



Exhibited

Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Art nègre, 15 novembre - 31 décembre 1930

Paris, Chez Louis Carré, 2 bis Villa Guibert, Sculptures et objets. Afrique noire, Amérique ancienne, Polynésie et Mélanésie, 5 - 20 juillet 1933

New York, Museum of Modern Art, African Negro Art, 18 mars - 19 mai 1935

Manchester, Currier Museum of Art, African Negro Art, 10 juin - 8 juillet 1935

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, African Negro Art, 23 juillet - 2 septembre 1935

Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Negro Art, 28 septembre - 27 octobre 1935

Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Museum, African Tribal Sculpture, avril - septembre 1956

Cannes, Palais Miramar, Première exposition rétrospective internationale des arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 6 juillet - 29 septembre 1957

Paris, Fondation Dapper, Art et mythologie. Figures tshokwe, 13 octobre 1988 - 25 février 1989

Paris, Galerie Alain de Monbrison, Le salon international des arts premiers. Parcours des mondes, 9 - 13 septembre 2009



Post lot text

CHOKWE SCEPTER, ANGOLA
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Angola, Africa
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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