Duende's stories attract our readers' attention since 2013 (previously hosted on brunoclaessens.com) and wishes to provide a useful resource for information on art of the African continent and its diaspora. Stories include exhibition announcements and reviews, interviews with artists, discoveries, new research, auction news, etc.
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Image courtesy of Tim Hauf/Corbis. -
Detail of a Sango reliquary figure from Gabon. Africarium Collection. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Mask. Saibai Island, Torres Strait (Northern Islands, Australia), pre 1870, wood, human hair, shell, seedpod, fiber, pigment, melo shell and coix seeds. Collection Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 2015. -
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Image courtesy of Anita J. Glaze, 1969. -
Jean-Pierre Jernander anno 2007 – image courtesy of Guy van Rijn’s Who’s Who in African Art. -
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Ikenga figure. Height: 73,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art. -
Ladislas Segy and Lloyd Moss. Image courtesy of NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection. -
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Nkanu panel, D.R. Congo. Height: 41 cm. Image courtesy of Christie’s. -
Image courtesy of the Fundação Sindika Dokolo. -
Photograph by Peter Zeray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
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Two Mangbetu sickle knives. Image: BC; courtesy of the Ethnographic Collections, Ghent University, Belgium. -
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View of my office this week :) -
J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere (Nigerian, 1930–2014) – Untitled (Mkpuk Eba), 1974. Gelatin silver print. Image courtesy of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (2010.168). -
Wè miniature mask, Ivory Coast. Height: 12 cm (34 cm with beard). Peres Projects Collection. -
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Ruby and the Rubettes. -
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Image courtesy of the Beyeler Foundation. -
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This beautiful headrest came up for auction in the UK yesterday. 15 cm high and 14 cm long, it comes from either the Shona or Tsonga (who live in Zimbabwe and Mozambique). This rare zoomorphic example was sitting in a small mixed auction with an estimate of £ 1,000-1,500 – clearly there was already an awareness of its value since it was not valued at £ 50-100. After a fierce bidding war it eventually was sold for £ 23,000 (without premium) to the new lucky owner – it’s clear again that the regional UK auctions are well checked on sleepers :)
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The Chokwe Tshibinda Ilunga figure from the Kimbel Art Museum. Image courtesy of Hughes Dubois, 1988. -
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Image courtesy of Didier Claes. -
Baule figure. Height: 68 cm. Image courtesy of The Barnes Foundation (A221). -
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Image courtesy of Christie’s. -
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Photo: Bruno Claessens. Image courtesy of the Blom Collection, Switzerland. -
Image courtesy of Susan Kloman/Christie’s. -
Image courtesy of Lempertz. -
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Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
Image courtesy of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. -
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Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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The Mossi wood carver Roago Sawadogo, photographed in Sini in 1984. Image courtesy of Thomas G.B. Wheelock. -
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Nigerian farmer, photographed by Fagg in 1960. Published in: Fagg (B.), “Nok terracottas”, Lagos, 1977: p. 27, fig. 21.