Hemba Niembo Ancestral Figure singiti

Hemba Niembo Ancestral Figure - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1

Hemba peoples, Niembo sub-group, Mbulula, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wood
Height: 68 cm

Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels
Jacques Blanckaert, Brussels
Dr. L.L. Lanfranchi, Celerina

Selected Exhibition History
27 September, 1984-15 January, 1985, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern
27 February-19 May, 1985, Detroit,MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern
23 June 23-1 September, 1985, Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern
25 March-5 June 1988, Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch prive-bezit

Selected Publication History
William Rubin, Ed., Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern, New York, 1984, v I, p 38
Gérald Berjonneau and Jean-Louis Sonnery, Rediscovered Masterpieces of African Art, Boulogne, 1987, fig 229
Luc de Heusch et al, Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch Prive-bezit, Brussels, 1988, p 110, Plate XXXXII
Jonathan Fogel, 'James J.Ross et l'art africain', in: Tribal Art, XV-2, Nr 59, 2011, p 93, fig 4
François Neyt, Fleuve Congo, Paris, 2010, pp 258-259, cat 173 (not in exhibition)

Acquired from Entwistle by
Private Collection

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