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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Helena Rubinstein with African mask, c. 1935. Image courtesy of the Helena Rubinstein Foundation archive, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, Special Collections. Photograph by George Maillard Kesslere. -
Senufo bird. Height: 40,6 cm. Image courtesy of the Africarium Collection. -
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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. -
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Yombe maternity figure. Height: 28 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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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 Tajan. -
Image courtesy of Tajan. -
Image courtesy of Galerie Flak. -
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Ngbandi figure (lot 308). Height: 72,1 cm. Est. $ 200-300K. Ex Pablo Picasso. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
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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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. -
Jo Van De Vijver © KMMA – MRAC. -
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Image courtesy of Native. -
Image courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts. -
Image courtesy of Lempertz. -
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 Bonhams. -
Ejagham headcrest, Cross River Region, Nigeria. Height: 68,6 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Image courtesy of De Zwaan. -
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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Kudio-bocchio figure from the Fon. Height 67 cm. -
Image courtesy of Galerie Schoffel-Valluet. -
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Photo courtesy of Gaechter&Clahsen. -
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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 Neoscape/Robert A.M. Stern Architects -
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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).