Reliquary head, Añgokh-Nlô-Byeri mounted on a Kichizô Inagaki (1876-1951) base
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Provenance
Collection of Paul Guillaume, Paris;
Collection of Domenica Guillaume (born Juliette Lacaze, 1898-1977);
Maîtres Etienne Ader and Maurice Rheimes, Hôtel Drouot Paris, November 9, 1965, lot 147;
Simone de Monbrison, Paris;
Collection of Rosemary and George Lois, New York;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Collection of Drs. Marian and Daniel Malcolm, New Jersey;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Collection of Jeff Soref, New York, acquired from the above in 1997;
Sotheby's Paris, November 30, 2010, lot 27;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2010.
Exhibitions / Fairs
African Negro Art. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 18 - May 19, 1935; Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire, June 10 – July 8, 1935; San Francisco Museum of Art, July 23-September 2, 1935; Cleveland Museum of Art, September 28-October 27, 1935; Arts Club of Chicago, November 15 – December 9, 1935; Milwaukee Art Institute, January 7-26, 1936; Baltimore Museum of Art, February 10-March 9, 1936; Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut, March 25 – April 14, 1936.
Fang. Musée Dapper, Paris, November 21, 1991 - April 15, 1992.
Eternal Ancestors, The Art of the Central African Reliquary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 2, 2007 - March 2, 2008.
Visual Encounters. Africa, Oceania and Modern Art / Bildwelten. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, January 25 - May 25, 2009.
The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts. LACMA, February 26 - July 9, 2017.
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