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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | 177 | $****** - ****** | KOTA-OBAMBA RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON |
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44.5 cm (17.5 in)
Frank Crowninshield, New York, acquired by 1937, probably via John Graham
Harry Bober, New York, probably acquired in the late 1940s
Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 1989, lot 62, consigned by the estate of the above
Daniel Hourdé, Paris, acquired at the above auction
Armand Arman, New York and Vence, presumably acquired from the above
Samir Borro, Brussels, acquired by 1995, presumably from the above
Private Collection, Austria, acquired from the above in the late 1990s
European Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2003
PUBLISHED
Herbert J. Spinden, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, New York, 1937, probably between cat. nos. 69-81 (listed)
Daniel Hourdé, advertisement, Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 76, Winter 1990, p. 60
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, ed., Kunst aus Afrika Indonesien Ozeanien und Latein-amerika, Linz, 1999
Jacques Germain, "De la figure de reliquaire concave-convexe dite à front bombé des kota", Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 117, 2001, p. 21
Brooklyn Museum, New York, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, March 20 - April 25, 1937
Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Kunst aus Afrika Indonesien Ozeanien und Latein-amerika, October 28 - December 5, 1999
The reverse inscribed in white ink: "5657"
