Provenance
Georges de Miré, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, "Collection G. de Miré", 16 December 1931,
Lot 47
André Level, Paris
Private Collection, France
Exhibited
1930, Paris, Galerie du Théâtre Pigalle, Afrique-Océanie
21 November 1991-15 April 1992, Paris, Musée Dapper, Fang
4 October 1995-21 January 1996, London, Royal Academy of Arts, Africa: The Art of a Continent
2 October 2007-2 March 2008, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eternal Ancestors. The Art of the Central African Reliquary
25 January-25 May 2009, Basel, Switzerland, Fondation Beyeler, Bildwelten. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne
Published
Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange, Afrique Noire: La Création Plastique, Paris, 1967, p 107, fig 103
Louis Perrois, La Statuaire Fang, Gabon, Paris, 1972, p 67, pl 5,
fig 51
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Washington, D.C., 1989, fig 849
Philippe Laburthe-Tolra and Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Fang, Paris, 1992, fig 136
Tom Phillips, Ed, Africa: The Art of a Continent, Munich/New York, 1995, p 4, cat 93
Alisa LaGamma, Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p 141, cat 10
Oliver Wick and Antje Denner, Bildgewaltig: Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne, Basel, 2009, Section V, no7
François Neyt, Fleuve Congo, Paris, 2010, p 142, fig 84