Djenne peoples, Djenne, Mali
Ceramic Terracotta
1250 – 1550 AD
Height: 29.2 cm
Provenance
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels
Count Baudouin de Grunne, Brussels
Private Collection, USA
Selected Exhibition History
October 4, 1995 - January 21, 1996, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Africa: The Art of a Continent
March 1 - May 1, 1996, Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Africa: The Art of a Continent
June 7 - September 29, 1996, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Africa: The Art of a Continent
1990, Rome, Centre Culturel Français de Rome, Terra d'Africa, terra d'archeologia : la grande scultura in terracotta del Mali : Djenné VIII-XVI sec.
Selected Publication History
Tom Phillips, Ed, Africa: The Art of a Continent, Munich/New York, 1995, p. 494, plate 6.4j
Bernard de Grunne, Djenne - Jeno - 1000 Years of Terracotta Statuary in Mali, Brussels, 2014, no. 44
(flipped photo) and no. 109
Bernardo Bernardi and Bernard de Grunne, , Terra d’Africa, Terra d’Archeologia, La Grande Scultura in Terracotta del Mali, Djenné VII- XVI sec., Florence, 1990, p. 52, cat. 20