FANG-MABEA ANCESTOR FIGURE, CAMEROON

Blair Hughes-Stanton, London, acquired at auction in London in the 1920s

Christie’s, London, October 12, 1976, lot 83, consigned by the above

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired at the above auction with the assistance of Merton D. Simpson, New York

Leon Underwood, Figures in Wood of West Africa, London, 1947, pls. 31a, 31b, 32

Margaret Trowell, Classical African Sculpture, London, 1954, pl. XXXVIII, fig. A

Leon Underwood, Figures in Wood of West Africa (Revised Edition), London, 1967, pls. 36a, 36b

Margaret Trowell, Classical African Sculpture (Revised Edition), New York, 1970, pl. XXXVIII, fig. A

Louis Perrois, La statuaire Fan, Paris, 1972, p. 227, fig. 149 and pl. 86, no. 9

Raoul Lehuard, "Les ventes", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 20, 1976, p. 48

Louis Perrois, Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, p. 63, fig. 37

Susan M. Vogel, African Sculpture: the Shape of Surprise, Greenvale, New York, 1980, p. 32, cat. no. 110

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

John McKesson, "Réflexions sur l’évolution de la sculpture des reliquaires Fang/Reflections on the Evolution of Fang Reliquary Sculpture", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 63, 1987, p. 19