Songye Artist
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wood, horn, animal skin/hide, fiber, metal
Further images
Provenance
Ex Josef Müller, Solothurn
By descent to Monique and Jean Paul Barbier, Geneva
Ex Merton D. Simpson, New York (inv. no. 3230) acquired from the above by November 1979
Ex Allan Stone, New York
Through descent in the family , seller 2013
Ex private collection, New York
Publications
Douglas Newton, Tribal Sculpture: Masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific in the Barbier-Mueller Museum. New York: 1995. p. 12, fig. 6
Allan Stone Tribal Art Museum, New York, Songye Power Figures, New York, 1995 (postcard)
Franz Meyer, Phyllis Hattis, Jura Brüschweiler and Jean-Paul Barbier, “Zusammengebrachtes, Josef Müller und seine Kunstwerke”, Du – Europäische Kunstzeitschrift, August 1978, p. 71
Kevin Conru, Anonymous Collectors. Brussels: 2007, unpaginated, 08-78, fol. 14 verso
Christie’s New York, Selections from the Allan Stone Collection, November 12, 2007, illustrated on the cover
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