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Statue Mbété

Lot 94
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Lot 94 | Statue Mbété
Statue Mbété

Gabon

Hauteur : 77 cm. (30 3⁄8 in.)





Provenance

Collection Aristide Courtois (1883-1962), Paris, acquis avant 1938

Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris, en 1939

Madeleine Rousseau (1895-1980), Paris

René Rasmussen (1912-1979), Paris

Transmis par descendance

Loudmer-Poulain, Drouot Rive Gauche, Paris, Succession René Rasmussen. 1ère vente, 14 décembre 1979, lot 53

Alain de Monbrison, Paris, acquis lors de cette vente

Collection Hubert Goldet (1945-2000), Paris, acquis auprès de ce dernier ca. 1979

De Ricqlès, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, Collection Hubert Goldet, 30 juin - 1er juillet 2001, lot 276

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller (inv. n° 1019-86)



Literature

Verbeken, A., « La poésie nègre au Congo », in Le Musée vivant. Revue de l’APAM, Paris, novembre 1948, n° 36-37, p. 13, n° 7

Césaire, A., Soleil cou-coupé, Paris, 1948, plat recto

Lehuard, R., « La Collection Rasmussen », in Arts d’Afrique Noire, Arnouville, hiver 1979, n° 32, p. 23

Paudrat, J.-L., La voie des ancêtres. En hommage à Claude Lévi-Strauss/The Way of the Ancestors. A Tribute to Claude Levi-Strauss, Paris, 1986, n° 36b

Berjonneau, G. et Sonnery, J.-L., Chefs-d’œuvre inédits de l’Afrique noire/ Rediscovered Masterpieces of African Art/ Onbekende meesterwerken uit zwart Afrika, Boulogne, 1987, p. 228, n° 211

Lehuard, R., « A propos de “La voie des ancêtres” », in Arts d’Afrique Noire, Arnouville, printemps 1987, n° 61, p. 12

Bacquart, J.-B., L’art tribal d’Afrique noire/The Tribal Arts of Africa, Paris, 1998, p. 119, n° D

Villanis, E., « La collection Goldet entre dans l’Histoire », in Gazette Drouot, Paris, juillet 2001, n° 27, p. 43

Duponchelle, V., « La ruée vers l’or noir », in Le Figaro, Paris, 2 juillet 2001

Schlumberger, J., « L’art primitif atteint des sommets », in Journal du Dimanche, Paris, 1er juillet 2001

Melikian, S., « Out of Africa, Inspiration for the 20th Century », in International Herald Tribune, Paris, 7-8 juillet 2001

Perrois, L., « L'art des Ambété et la tradition “Kota”/Ambete Art and the “Kota” Tradition », in Art Tribal, Paris, hiver 2002, n° 1, pp. 74 et 75

Perrois, L., « L’ancêtre mbédé du « maître d’Abolo ». Un chef-d’œuvre de l’art africain dans son contexte : histoire, société, style/The Mbédé Ancestor of the “Abolo Master”. A Masterpiece of African Art in its Historical, Social and Stylistic Context », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2004, n° 5, plat recto, pp. 144- 145, 147, 154, 156 et 158, n° 1, 3, 8 et 11

LaGamma, A., « Ancêtres éternels. L’art du reliquaire en Afrique centrale/ Eternal Ancestors. Art of the Central African Reliquary », in Tribal Art Magazine, Arquennes, automne 2007, n° 18, p. 80, n°15

LaGamma, A., Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p. 274, n° 93

Barbier-Mueller, J.P., 1977-2007. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2007, plat verso

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. 196-197 et 389

Perrois, L., Arts du Gabon, Genève, 2011, plat recto

Butor, M., 6000 ans de réceptacles. La vaisselle des siècles, Lausanne, 2017, p. 129, n° 63

Martin, S. et al., Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, Paris, 2017, pp. 102 et 308, n° 241

Valluet, M.-C., Regards visionnaires. Arts d'Afrique, d'Amérique, d'Asie du Sud-Est et d'Océanie/ Collectors' Visions. Arts of Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia and the Americas, Milan, 2018, p. 231, n° 31



Exhibited

Paris, Musée Dapper, La voie des ancêtres. En hommage à Claude Lévi-Strauss, 6 novembre 1986 - 7 février 1987

Paris, Musée Dapper, Chefs-d’œuvre inédits de l’Afrique noire, 10 octobre 1987 - 5 mai 1988

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary, 1er octobre 2007 - 2 mars 2008

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 6000 ans de réceptacles. La vaisselle des siècles, 17 mai 2017 - 25 février 2018

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



Further details

Mbete figure, Gabon
Medium:Wood, Shell
Place of origin:Gabon, Africa
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