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Pair of Yoruba Female Twin Figures, Yagba, Nigeria
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- wood
- Heights: 8 in (20.3 cm) and 8 1/4 in (20.9 cm)
Provenance
Morton Dimondstein, Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver, Los Angeles, acquired from the above circa 1972
Edwin and Cherie Silver, Los Angeles, acquired from the above circa 1972
Exhibited
The Center for African Art, New York, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, September 20, 1989 - January 7, 1990, and travelling: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, February 10 - April 1, 1990; the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 8 - August 26, 1990; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, September 26 - December 9, 1990; the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, January 11 - March 24, 1991 the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 23 - June 16, 1991; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, July 1 - October 11, 1991
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Isn't S/he a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, November 17, 1996 - November 16, 1997, and travelling:
Minneapolis Institute of Art, November 14, 1998 - January 17, 1999
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Isn't S/he a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, November 17, 1996 - November 16, 1997, and travelling:
Minneapolis Institute of Art, November 14, 1998 - January 17, 1999
Literature
Henry John Drewal, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, p. 176, fig. 198
Elisabeth L. Cameron, Isn't S/He a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996, p. 68, fig. 88
Elisabeth L. Cameron, Isn't S/He a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996, p. 68, fig. 88