Songye Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Reportedly collected in situ and brought to Belgium in the 1930s

Camille Duyck, Brussels, reportedly acquired before 1940

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, presumably acquired from the heirs of the above

Marc Leo Felix, Brussels

Merton D. Simpson, New York (inv. no. 6769)

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, New York, acquired from the above on December 8, 1993

Sotheby’s, New York, African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman, June 30, 2020, lot 21

Acquired at the above auction by the present owner

The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, January 31 - April 18, 1999

The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo, September 30, 2011 - January 8, 2012 

Allen Wardwell, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1999, p. 38, cat. no. 61

John Pemberton III, Crosscurrents: Art of the Southeastern Congo, Northampton, Massachusetts, 2011, p. 37, cat. no. 21