1) AUCTION STICKERS
Vérité sale
Collection Verité, sold in Paris on 17-18 June 2006.
Pareyn 1928
Pareyn Collection, Antwerp, Belgium, 10-15 December 1928
Goldet sale
Collection Hubert Goldet, Paris, France - sold in Paris on 30th June and 1st July 2001.
2) GALLERY STICKERS
Alain Lecomte, Paris, France
Alain Lecomte, Paris, France.
Alain de Monbrison
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, France.
Perls Galleries
Perls Galleries, New York, USA.
Dalton Somaré
Dalton Somaré/Leonardo Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
Pace Primitive
Pace Primitive, New York, USA
James Willis Gallery
James Willis Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Charles Ratton
Charles Ratton, Paris, France
Entwistle
Lance and Roberta Entwistle, London, UK & Paris, France
Mathias Komor
Mathias Komor, New York, NY, USA
3) INSCRIPTIONS
3.1) BLACK INK
Unknown (V.B 2389-1)
On a Kanak mask from a Dutch collection.
Unknown (58/29A)
Possibly collection Léon Fouks, Poitiers ? On a Songye mask (YVRA 0116833).
Frobenius
Collected by Leo Frobenius, 1910-1912. On a Songye axe (YVRA 0129170).
Unknown (164)
Unknown (164).
Christian Duponcheel
Collected by Christian Duponcheel, Pietrebas, Belgium. On a Punu mask (YVRA 0080761).
3.2) INCISED
Private Collection, New England
Private Collection, New England. This collector put his social security number on all his objects (here on a Bamana headdress).
3.3) RED INK
Colin Michael Sayers
Collection Colin Michael Sayers, South Africa
Unknown (893)
On a Bassa figure (Liberia).
3.4) WHITE INK
Unknown (VE85)
Unknown (VE85).
Georg Tillmann
Collection Georg Tillmann, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Unknown (ETH 205)
Unknown (ETH 205).
Musée de la vie indigène, Leopoldville, D.R. Congo
Musée de la vie indigène, Leopoldville, D.R. Congo.
Unknown (Me 14737)
On a drum from Torres Straits. Reads: "Me 14737.Torres Straße Bibliogr. Institut." The Bibliographisches Institut was a private publishing house founded in 1826 that moved to Leipzig in 1874, and probably the provenance for this object. Almost all of the alphanumeric accession numbers from the Dresden Museum begin with ‘MI’ but there are a few that begin with ‘Me’.
Unknown (A.B.213.)
On a Cameroon throne.
André Held
Collection André Held, Ecublens, Switzerland.
Marc Felix
Marc Felix, Brussels, Belgium. On an Ijo mask (YVRA 0098011).
Fred ten Houten
Collection Fred ten Houten, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Augustin Krämer
Collected by Augustin Krämer, Stuttgart, Germany.
Han Coray collection
HC in white ink followed by a number. Collection Han Coray, Agnuzzo-Lugano, Switzerland.
Marc Felix Collection
FX in white ink followed by a number (year + ?). Marc Felix, Brussels, Belgium.
Unknown (A14)
On a Dogon figure (0120234).
Unknown (DS AF 10 MA)
Possibly Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany. On a Guro mask (YVRA 0031932).
Keller Collection
Collection Georges F. Keller, Davos, Switzerland
Geisler Collection
Collection Dr. Heinz Geisler, Heidelberg, Germany
Unknown (SW.2)
Linden Museum
Linden Museum, Stuttgart, Germany.
Unknown (51709A)
In a German private collection.
Egon Günther
Collection Egon Günther, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Colin Michael Sayers
Collection Colin Michael Sayers, South Africa. On a Luba stool (YVRA 0092200).
Unknown (1390)
On a Lobi figure (YVRA 0005392). Possibly Walter Kaiser, Stuttgart, Germany.
Unknown (8234)
On a Guro mask (YVRA 0101108).
Unknown (5017)
On a Benin plaque (YVRA 0094165) Possibly a Webster number.
Unknown (1098)
On a Fang head (YVRA 0043689): Charles Ratton or Louis Carré, Paris, 1930s
Unknown (0729)
On a Bamana figure (YVRA 0000002)
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Collection Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna
On a Benin plaque (YVRA 0094165).
Unknown (16)
“16” on a Fang figure (YVRA 0032959). Possibly exhibition inventory number of:
- “André Derain Paintings and Early African Heads and Statues from the Gabun Pahouin Tribes”, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 15 February-10 March 1933
- or “Early Heads and Statues from the Gabun Pahouin Tribe, Organized and Loaned by Mr. Paul Guillaume”, Chicago, Arts Club, 31 March-19 April 1933
St. Augustinus Museum
Collection St. Augustinus Museum
4) LABELS
4.1) METAL
Alex van Opstal
Collection Alex van Opstal, St.Genesius-Rode, Belgium (collected between 1910-1930
4.2) PAPER
Städtisches Völker-Museum
Städtisches Völker-Museum
Unknown (DB4b)
On a Benin ivory armband on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Unknown (A.201)
Webster
W.T. Webster, London, UK. On a Kongo staff (YVRA 0018318)
African Negro Art
Loan label “African Negro Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 18 March-19 May 1935 - in the upper right corner.
Christian Duponcheel
Collected by Christian Duponcheel, Pietrebas, Belgium. On a Punu mask (YVRA 0080761).
Eduard Hess
Collection Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland.
Unknown (German label)
Most likely from a German museum. “I.C.57206 W. AFR. Kamerun N.W. Crossfluss – Juju-Kopf – Gesch. Stabsart Dr. Mansfeld” on an Ekoi headdress (YVRA 0008763). Collected by the German military (staff) Dr. Alfred Mansfeld, who was District Officer in the Cross River region (Cameroon) from 1904 to 1907.
Unknown (German label)
“Zentral-Afrika Wama-Gebiet 1-ZU-33″. On a Hemba figure (YVRA 0042551).
Julius Konietzko
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany. On a Chokwe mask (YVRA 0130161).
Gaston Durville
Collection Gaston Durville, Paris, France.
Gaston Durville
Collection Gaston Durville, Paris, France.
Gaston Durville
Collection Gaston Durville, Paris, France.
Museum of Modern Art 1935
Exhibition label “African Negro Art”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 18 March-19 May 1935. On a Baule figure (YVRA 0033639).
Provost
Collection Carl K. Provost. On a Lega mask (YVRA 0101567).
André Fourquet
Collection André Fourquet, Paris, France.