Northern Hemba peoples, Luika River region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wood
19th Century
Height: 78 cm
Provenance
Jacques Blanckaert, Brussels
Luciano Lanfranchi, Milan
Entwistle, London and Paris
Private Collection, USA
Selected Exhibition History
1975 Antwerp, Marcel Peters Centrum, Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Musée Ethnographique d'Anvers et de Collections Particulieres. Sculptures Africaines: Nouveau Regard sur un Héritage
1989 Florence, Forte di Belvedere, La Grande Scultura dell’Africa Nera
1992 Paris, Musée Dapper, Le Grand Heritage: Sculptures de l’Afrique Noire
2011-2012 Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo
Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015
[Acc. No. 2015.119]
Selected Publication History
Ezio Bassani, ed., La Grande Scultura dell’Africa Nera, Florence, 1989, p 268, cat 130
Ezio Bassani, Le Grand Heritage: Sculptures de l’Afrique Noire, Paris, 1992, p 232
Philippe Guimiot, Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Musée Ethnographique d'Anvers et de Collections Particulieres. Sculptures Africaines: Nouveau Regard sur un Héritage, cat 81
Pr. François Neyt, La Grande Statuaire Hemba du Zaire, Louvain-la- Neuve, 1977, pp 258-259, p 433,
fig 56 and back-cover
John Pemberton III, Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo, Northampton, MA, 2011, p 54, cat 42