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 Petra Schütz / Detlef Linse. -
Image courtesy of Boris Kegel-Konietzko, 1959. -
A Luba Shankadi mboko figure. Ca. 1930. Height: 59 cm. -
Image courtesy of Zemanek-Münster. -
Group of masks. Found in the Judean Hills or Judean foothills. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 9,000 years old. Image courtesy of Elie Posner/Israel Museum, Jerusalem. -
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Byeri, 2013. Image courtesy of Ingrid Baars. -
Angas figures. Height: 53,3 & 55,9 cm. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA., USA (#1996.12.34.1 & 2). -
Image courtesy of the Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. (# VIII A 14566 a) -
Image courtesy of Dorotheum. -
Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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Mbole figure. Height: 69,5 cm. Image courtesy of the MAS (# AE.0673). -
A seated Yombe figure. Height: 30 cm. Provenance: John Vernon – Putney, November 1964 & Ernst Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London. Image courtesy of Woolley & Wallis. -
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From left to right: Collection MAS – Antwerp (AE.1956.00024), MRAC – Tervuren (EO.0.0.35476), Private Collection, MRAC – Tervuren, MRAC – Tervuren. All 3 MRAC aerophones collected in the Batangi Chiefdom (Nande) by A. Jacob before 1934 and donated to the MRAC in April 1934 by R. Hoffmann. -
Chef Magbate from the Magoka with his shields and bundles of lances. Image courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History. -
Image courtesy of the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden. -
Jo Van De Vijver © KMMA – MRAC. -
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Kotoko figure on horseback. Height: 4,8 cm.Image courtesy of Sotheby’s (Sotheby’s, New York, “Masterpieces of African Art from the Collection of the Late Werner Muensterberger “, 11 May 2012. Lot 58.). -
Nkanu panel. Height: 43,8 cm. Image courtesy of the MAS (# AE.1961.0077). -
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Photo by Jean-Pierre Hallet, 1960s. Image courtesy of Susan Fassberg. -
Standing male figure. Bini or Edo, Nigeria. Height: 56,5 cm. Image courtesy of The Barnes Foundation (A230). -
Thomas Ona (1938). Photo source unknown to me so any additional information is very welcome. -
Various Dan, Mano, Bassa, Toma, Kpelle (and others) miniature masks from Liberia and Ivory Coast. On loan to the Yale University Art Gallery from the James J. Ross collection. Image: BC, November 2009. -
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Kuba-Nbengi Forehead Scarification and Hair Styled with Redwood Paste. Photo by Jan Vansina, 1956. Image courtesy of the University of Wisconsin. -
Image courtesy of Native. -
Image courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts. -
Image courtesy of Lempertz. -
Sapi-Portuguese bust. Image courtesy of the British Museum (BM:Af.9037). -
Image courtesy of Artcurial. -
What looting looks like: feet of Sotheby’s pillaged statue are still at the site of Koh Ker, Cambodia. -
Image courtesy of Koller. -
Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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Image courtesy of Christie’s. -
Image courtesy of Binoche et Giquello. -
Image courtesy of Bonhams. -
Luluwa figures from the workshop of the diamond shaped eyes. Height (left): 36 cm. Height (right): 37,5 cm. Images courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Bango spoon. Ivory. Height: 19,8 cm. The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (#1978.412.704). -
Ejagham headcrest, Cross River Region, Nigeria. Height: 68,6 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Image: BC. -
Image courtesy of De Zwaan. -
Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. -
Sorry for the lack of posts last week. I was in NY for curatorial activities (and the auctions of course). A review of the Allan Stone sale is following. The catalogues of the next Christie’s and Sotheby’s Paris auctions in December are already online by the way. To finish, an interesting article about the recent record prices in the contemporary art market can be found here.
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Left a detail of Picasso’s “Guernica” (1937) with the head reminiscent of the Baule mask on the right. -
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Image: BC. -
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Image: BC.