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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Teke figure by the Master of the wedge-shaped beard. Image courtesy of Christie’s (11 December 2014, lot 52). -
Ancestral figures from the shrine of the Basiatshiwa-Mwamuwa (Bahutshwe-Boyo). Chief Kimano II, Kabambare territory, Maniema. Photo by H. Goldstein, 1956. Published in Beaulieux (Dick), “Belgium collects African Art”, Brussels, 2000: p. 94. -
Senufo ceremonial staff. Height: 90,5 cm. Photo by Ferry Herrebrugh. Image courtesy of Rutger & Irene der Kinderen, The Netherlands. -
Atem trying out a new slit gong. Image courtesy of Brain & Pollock, 1971 (color plate 12). -
Foyn Phuonchu Aseh of Babanki-Tungo in his workshop. Published in Emonts (J.), Ins Steppen und Bergland Innerkameruns. Aus dem Leben und Wirken deutscher Afrika Missionare, Aachen, 1927: p. 219. -
Image courtesy of Scantix. -
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A sneak peek of the installation of “Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art” at the Metropolitan. Image courtesy of Yaëlle Biro – as posted on her twitter account. -
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Kran figure (Liberia). Height: 52,7 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
An okoroshi masquerade featuring the character of Onyejuwe. Photo by G. I. Jones, 1930s, at Eziama Orlu (Isuama Igbo). -
Height: 76,8 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Fang spoon. Height: 19 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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Keaka headdress. Image courtesy of the Linden Museum Stuttgart. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, Germany (#45.455). Height: 22 cm. -
Keaka headdress. Image courtesy of the Linden Museum Stuttgart. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Stuttgart, Germany (#45.455). Height: 22 cm. -
Image courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum (2012.33.1). -
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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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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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Image courtesy of the Africarium collection. -
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Poscard published by Lisk-Carew Bros. Without date. -
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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). -
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. -
(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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A sowei in costume with attendants, Njahindama, Kakua, Bo, Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Ruth Phillips. -
Image courtesy of Petra Schütz / Detlef Linse. -
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) -
Mbole figure. Height: 69,5 cm. Image courtesy of the MAS (# AE.0673). -
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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. -
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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). -
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. -
Kuba-Nbengi Forehead Scarification and Hair Styled with Redwood Paste. Photo by Jan Vansina, 1956. Image courtesy of the University of Wisconsin. -
Sapi-Portuguese bust. Image courtesy of the British Museum (BM:Af.9037). -
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). -
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Kongo-Vili figure; height: 38,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly (#71.1930.29.322). -
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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Post-bomb calibration curve (blue) and interval of calibrated dates (grey peak). Radiocarbon date: post 1954. Calibrated dates: 1963-1964 (95,4 % probability). -
My son and I wish you a wonderful weekend ! -
Songye caryatid stool. (image courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery, #2006.51.292)
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