Auction Closed
June 30, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
BAMANA HEADDRESS, MALI
Wood
Height: 16 in (40.6 cm)
Gaston de Havenon, New York, acquired by 1960
Sidney and Bernice Cꦬlyman, Scarsdale,ꦺ acquired from the above in November 1972
Robert Goldwater, Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York, 1960, p. 47, pl. 75
Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the de Havenon Collection, Washington, D.C., 1971, n.p., pl. 51
Dominique Zahan, Antilopes du soleil. Arts et rites agraires d'Afrique noire, Vienna, 1980, pl. 70, no. II 130
Kate Ezra, A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 12, cat. no. 8
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 70, fig. 48
Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, 1993, n.p.
Alisa LaGamma, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, New York, 2002, p. 105, cat. no. 59
The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Antelopes and Queens: Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, February 17 - May 8, 1960
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., African Art: the de Havenon Collection, May 30 - October 3, 1971
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, April 30 - June, 1, 1986; and t🍬raveling: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 20, 1986 - March 1, 1987
Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 - February 27, 1994
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, November 19, 2002 - April 13, 2003