A RARE AKAN POWER FIGURE, Ghana

Herbert Baker, Chicago, by 1966
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1978

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Ethnic Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baker. Africa, Mediterranean, Oceania, December 17, 1966 - January 29, 1967
Museum of Primitive Art, New York, The Herbert Baker Collecti­on, 1969 - 1970
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sculpture of Africa: Selections from a Private Collection, November 2 - December 23, 1984 (additional venue: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, January 19 - March 3, 1985)
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Forms of Expression: African Masks and Sculpture, February - April, 1993

Atkins Museum (ed.), Ethnic Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baker. Africa, Mediterranean, Oceania, Kansas City, 1966, p. 28, cat. 83
Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), The Herbert Baker Collecti­on, New York, 1969, p. 43, cat. 102
Evan Maurer (ed.), Sculpture of Africa: Selections from a Private Collection, Ann Arbor, 1984, pl. 8

Very good condition overall; fine age crack through proper left side of base; exceptionally fine, heavily encrusted patina (fragile).
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