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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Kudio-bocchio figure from the Fon. Height 67 cm. -
Image: BC. -
Image courtesy of Galerie Schoffel-Valluet. -
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Image: BC. Left dagger courtesy of the Grace Collection of African Art. -
Photo courtesy of Gaechter&Clahsen. -
Kongo-Vili figure; height: 38,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly (#71.1930.29.322). -
Frieze Masters tents in Regent’s Park. Image: BC. -
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Baga headdress. Wood, brass, metal, height 119.5cm. Est $ 400,000-600,000. Photo courtesy of Bonhams. -
Rebecca Hoyes, of Habitat, and designer Boubacar Doumbla make cushions in Mali. Image courtesy of the Financial Times. -
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Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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In case you hadn’t seen the film yet, somebody was so kind to upload it to Youtube (with English subtitles). ‘Bulgy eyes’ is in it.
If you want to know more about the movie and the objects featured in it, try to find a copy of the excellent book Ode au grand art africain. Les Statues meurent aussi. (Primedia, 2010). By the way, I helped to find several of those pieces back.
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“Bulgy Eyes” (head). Bronze. H: 26.2 cm. Found in Benin City, Yoruba Culture. Probably 16th century. Ex Webster 6366; Ex collection Lt. Gen. Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers. Image courtesy of George Ortiz Collection. -
Image courtesy of Neoscape/Robert A.M. Stern Architects -
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Image courtesy Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA (#X2007.21.63). -
Relief plaque showing a dignitary with drum and two attendants striking gongs. Edo peoples, Benin kingdom, Nigeria, 16th–17th century. 43.2 x 27.9 cm. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (#L-G 7.32.2012). -
Protective figure (yanda). Zande people, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood. H: 24.5 cm. Gift of Lawrence Gussman, Scarsdale, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum, in memory of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. (#B98.0061) Courtesty of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. -
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Post-bomb calibration curve (blue) and interval of calibrated dates (grey peak). Radiocarbon date: post 1954. Calibrated dates: 1963-1964 (95,4 % probability). -
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Fisher-women in the Maldives displaying cowries which have been exhumed from a burial pit, washed and laid out to dry (photo by Jan Hogendorn). -
My son and I wish you a wonderful weekend ! -
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Songye caryatid stool. (image courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery, #2006.51.292) -
Air Mountain, Niger. Man with necklace, tight fitting clothes and possible sticks in hands. “Bash’ marks on side of rock suggest rock gong. Horse Period. (image courtesy of David Coulson) Air Mountain, Niger. Man with necklace, tight fitting clothes and possible sticks in hands. “Bash’ marks on side of rock suggest rock gong. Horse Period. (image courtesy of David Coulson) -
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(Image courtesy of the Royal Museum for Central Africa, EO.1950.24.19) -
(Image courtesy of The British Museum) -
(image courtesy of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge) -
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El Anatsui – Pot of Wisdom exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, January 2013 (own photo) -
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With dealers the price can only ever come down – but at auction it only goes up.
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(image from ‘Probing Art with CT Scans : A New Look at Two Masterpieces from Central Africa”, by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux & Marc Ghysels, Arts & Cultures, 2008: p. 230) -
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(Image courtesy of Sotheby’s) -
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Found in the Tsauni mine at Jemaa, about 25 miles north-east of Nok. (Image courtesy of the The National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Lagos, Nigeria)
