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Tête de reliquaire Fang

Lot 16
18.12.2024 16:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 16 | Tête de reliquaire Fang
Tête de reliquaire Fang
GABON
Height : 23 cm. (9 in.)




Provenance

Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, ca. 1913
Robert J. Coady (1876-1921), Washington, acquis ca. 1917
Collection Anna Margaret Erickson Levene (1888-1947), New York, acquis ca. 1940
Collection Gertrude Winifred Erickson Loeb (1892-1984), Winnetka, transmis par descendance dans les années 1950
Collection William Bill Erickson Loeb (1925-1992), Soquel, transmis par descendance
Transmis par descendance
Sotheby’s, New York, 17 mai 2002, lot 144
Collection Myron Kunin (1928-2013), Minneapolis, acquis lors de cette vente
Sotheby’s, New York, In Pursuit of Beauty. The Myron Kunin Collection of African Art, 11 novembre 2014, lot 82
Collection privée, acquis lors de cette vente



Literature

Brummer, E. et J., « Cliché Brummer 10 », in Album of Mounted Photographs of African, Egyptian, Asian Sculpture, New York, ca. 1913, série IV, sous-série IV.B, p. 40
Kreymborg, A., « The Washington Square », in The Morning Telegraph, New York, 6 décembre 1914, vol. 84, n° 159, p. 1
Einstein, C., Negerplastik, Leipzig, 1915, pl. 62
Coady, R., The Soil. A Magazine of Art, New York, juillet 1917, vol. 1, n° 5, plat recto
Einstein, C., Negerplastik, Munich, 1920, pl. 62
Lehuard, R., « Publicité Christie’s - Christie's Advirtisement », in Arts d’Afrique Noire, Arnouville, printemps 1993, n° 85, p. 7
Bassani, E. et Paudrat, J.-L., Carl Einstein. La sculpture nègre, Paris, 1998, pp. 95 et 113, n° 62
Stepan, P. et al., La invención del Siglo XX. Carl Einstein y las Vanguardias - The Invention of the 20th Century. Carl Einstein and the Avant-Gardes, Madrid, 2008, pp. 84-85 et 314, n° 21
LaGamma, A., « Art du Gabon », in Tribal Art Magazine, Arquennes, 2012, hors-série n° 3, pp. 28 et 29, n° 27
Biro, Y., Charles Ratton. L'invention des arts « primitifs », Paris, 2013, p. 50, n° 24
Martin, S. et al., Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, Paris, 2017, pp. 60, 247 et 361, n° 98
Biro, Y., Fabriquer le regard. Marchands, réseaux et objets d’art africains à l’aube du XXe siècle, Dijon, 2018, pp. 95 et 340, n° 15 et pl. 62
Castelluccio, S. et al., Trésors de la collection Al Thani à l’hôtel de la Marine, Paris, 2021, pp. 98 et 99
Petridis, C. et al., The Language of Beauty in African Art, New Haven, 2022, p. 72, n° 2
Biro, Y et al., The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York. Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde, Leiden, 2023, pp. 165 et 166, n° 2.4



Exhibited

New York, Washington Square Gallery, Exposition inaugurale, décembre 1914
Madrid, MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, La invención del Siglo XX. Carl Einstein y las Vanguardias, 12 novembre 2008 - 16 février 2009
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde, 27 novembre 2012 - 2 septembre 2013
Paris, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Les forêts natales. Arts d’Afrique équatoriale atlantique, 3 octobre 2017 - 21 janvier 2018
Paris, Hôtel de la Marine, Trésors de la collection Al Thani, 18 novembre 2021 - 31 décembre 2022



Further details

Fang Reliquary Head, Gabon
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Gabon, Africa
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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