Auction Closed
June 30, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
DOGON MATERNITY FIGURE, MALI
Wood
Height: 13 ½ in (33 cm)
Gaston de Havenon, New York
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, ꧙acquired from the above on Apri🀅l 5, 1973
Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the de Havenon Collection, Washington, D.C., 1971, n.p., pl. 24
Susan M. Vogel, African Sculpture: the Shape of Surprise, Greenvale, New York, 1980, p. 10, cat. no. 4
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 61, fig. 22
Jean Borgatti and Richard Brilliant, Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World, New York, 1990, p. 107, cat. no. 27
Mary N. Nooter, Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals, New York, 1993, p. 211, cat. no. 85
Allen Wardwell, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, Greenwich, Connecticu♉t, 1999, p. 10, cat.💮 no. 9
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., African Art: the de Havenon Collection, May 30 - October 3, 1971
C.W. Post Art Gallery, Greenvale, New York, African Sculpture: the Shape of Surprise, February 17 - March 30, 1980
Center for African Art, New York, Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World, February 14 - August 12, 1990; aꦑnd traveling: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth,&nbs🦂p;September 16 - November 11, 1990
Museum for African Art, New York, Secrecy: African Art that Conceals and Reveals, February 13 - August 22, 1993
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, January 31 - April 18, 1999