African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman

African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman

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BAMANA ZOOMORPHIC HEADDRESS, MALI

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:57 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

BAMANA ZOOMORPHIC HEADDRESS, MALI


Wood, fiber

Height: 23 in (58.4 cm)

Gaston de Havenon, New York

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above in April 1972

Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 70, fig. 48

Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, 1993, n.p.

Alisa LaGamma, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, New York, 2002, p. 100, cat. no. 56

Bruno Roger-Vasselin and Laurelle Rinçon, "Sculpture africaine, les mythes d'origine", L'Œil, No. 544, February 2003

Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 - February 27, 1994

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, November 19, 2002 - April 13, 2003