Yombe Maternity phemba

Yombe Maternity - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1

Yombe peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wood, glass
Height: 27.3 cm

Provenance
Comte Jean-Jacques de Launoit, Brussels

Selected Exhibition History
30 January-10 April 1983, Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, African Art from New Jersey Collections
21 February-26 April 1987, Richmond, Virginia: The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Perspectives: Angles on African Art
18 September 1987-3 January 1988, New York, The Center for African Art, Perspectives: Angles on African Art
31 January-27 March 1988, Birmingham, AL, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Perspectives: Angles on African Art

Selected Publication History
Marshall W. Mount, African Art from New Jersey Collections, Montclair, NJ, 1983, cat 1
Susan Vogel, Ed., Perspectives: Angles on African Art, New York, 1987, cat 183
GĂ©rald Berjonneau and Jean-Louis Sonnery, Rediscovered Masterpieces of African Art, Boulogne, 1987, p 234, cat 219
Raoul Lehuard, Art Bakongo : Les Centres de Style, Vol.II, Arnouville, 1989, fig 477
Heinrich Schweizer, Visions of Grace: 100 Masterpieces from the Collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Milan, 2014, p 168, fig 66

Acquired from Entwistle by
Private Collection