African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman

African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman

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ELOYI (AFO) MATERNITY FIGURE, BENUE VALLEY, NIGERIA

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:57 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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ELOYI (AFO) MATERNITY FIGURE, BENUE VALLEY, NIGERIA


Wood

Height: 13 ¾ in (34.9 cm)

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels

Ben Tursch, Brussels, acquired from the above

Private Collection, Brussels

Lance and Roberta Entwistle, London and Paris

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above on June 18, 2006

Philippe Guimiot and Lucien Van de Velde, Oerkunsten van zwart Afrika/Arts premiers d'Afrique noire, Brussels, 1977, p. 73, cat. no. 40

Roger Vokaer, La maternité dans les arts premiers/Het Moederschap in de Primitive Kunsten, Brussels, 1977, p. 52, cat. no. 31

Luc de Heusch et al., Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch privé-bezit, Brussels, 1988, p. 87, cat. no. XIX

Luc de Heusch et al., Utotombo. L'Art d’Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Brussels, 1988, p. 87, cat. no. XIX

Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, The Tribal Arts of Africa, London, 1998, p. 90, fig. A

Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, L’art tribal d’Afrique noire, Paris, 1998, p. 90, fig. A