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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Vili drum. Height: 100,3 cm. Image courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum (#E6754). -
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Nkundu Figure. Collection Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, gift of Richard H. Scheller (2013.78.5) & Fang Figure. Scheller collection (L13.34.1). Ex Paul Guillaume. Pictures by Robert A. Kato. -
The Wunmonije heads at the British Museum in 1948. Published in Drewal (H.J.) & Schildkrout (E.), Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria, 2009: p. 4, fig. 2 -
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Mbembe mother and child figure. Height: 108 cm. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (#2010.256). -
Mangbetu or Zande bark box. Height: 44,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Collection Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands (#2668-24). -
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Yombe maternity figure. Height: 28 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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Katompe’ – Fernand Allard l’Olivier. Oil on canvast, 80 x 100 cm. Image by Ferry Herrebrugh, courtesy of Galerie Raf Van Severen, Antwerp. -
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Dogon-Soninke figure. Height: 76,2 cm. Image Courtesy of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Photo: Sotheby’s. -
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Image courtesy of the Africarium collection. -
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Boa figure. Height: ca. 50 cm. -
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Poscard published by Lisk-Carew Bros. Without date. -
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Image courtesy of Tajan. -
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Male and female figures, ti′i, from the Society Islands (probably Tahiti). Image courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum (#1886.1.1423 (L) and #1886.1.1424). -
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Image courtesy of Tajan. -
Source: Missione in prattica: Padri cappucini ne Regni di Congo, Angola, et adiacenti, Bibliotheca civica centrale, Torino, MS 457. Image courtesy of the Biblioteca civica centrale, Torino, Italy. -
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A group of Hungana ivories acquired from Umlauff in 1912. Image courtesy of the Penn Museum. -
Image courtesy of Galerie Flak. -
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(source: Himmelheber (H.), “Negerkunst und Negerkünstler”, Braunschweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1960: #40) -
Image courtesy of the The Universities of Ghana and Manchester, and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) -
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Ngbandi figure (lot 308). Height: 72,1 cm. Est. $ 200-300K. Ex Pablo Picasso. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Image courtesy of Guido Musch. Other pictures by me. -
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Dogon dyommo (rabbit) mask. Height: 40,5 cm. Image courtesy of the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA. -
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Vili nkisi nkondi figure. Height: 103,5 cm. Gift of Candis and Helmut Stern. Image courtesy of Michigan Museum of Art (2005/1.192). -
A sowei in costume with attendants, Njahindama, Kakua, Bo, Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Ruth Phillips. -
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Kongo figure. Height: 49,5 cm. Estimate: $500,000 – 700,000 USD. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.
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