Property from a Private Collection
Mossi Figure, Burkina Faso
Auction Closed
June 18, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
Mossi Figure, Burkina Faso
Wood, ritual patina with traces of palm oil, brass tacks, tin ornament, iron staple
Height: 22 ⅛ in (56.2 cm)
Guy Loudmer, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 27, 1985, lot 209
Hélène Leloup, Paris, acquired at the above auction
Patrick Caput, Paris, acquired from the above
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, acquired from the above by September 15, 2000
Robert and Lillian Bohlen, Brighton, Michigan, acquired from the above circa September 15, 2000
Pace Primitive, New York (inv. no. 54-3324), acquired on consignment from the above by May 13, 2008
Private Collection
Sotheby's, Paris, December 14, 2011, lot 15, consigned by the above
Acquired at the above auction by the present owner
Christopher D. Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Meudon, 1987, p. 10 and p. 161, cat. no. 128
Alain de Monbrison, XXe Biennale des antiquaires [exhibition catalogue for the 20th edition of the Paris Biennale], Paris, 2000, n.p., cat. no. 13
Christa Clarke, ed., African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of L'Art nègre and the Harlem Renaissance, New York and Philadelphia, 2015, p. 88, fig. 2