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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Our mask on view this week at the PAN art Fair in Amsterdam -
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Female bust, Anonymous Pende artist. Early 20th century, D.R. Congo. Wood, 63 cm. Provenance: Private collection, Belgium -
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Mostaff Muchawaya, "Chiedza", 2022. Mixed media on canvas, 171 x 131 cm -
Jan de Clerck at his home with an Igala statue and Ibibio mask, December 2022 -
"A place with no name" catalog cover. Works from the Sina Jina Collection. Christie's London. -
Installation view UNSETTLED. -
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Portrait of the artist. Image courtesy of Lumen Travo Gallery. -
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Installation view. Image courtesy of Kasmin Gallery. -
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Image courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. -
Image courtesy of the Moma. -
Theaster Gates, “Boli, a Portion of the Team Lives in Heaven”, 2014. -
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Detail of a Sango reliquary figure from Gabon. Africarium Collection. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Photograph by Peter Zeray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
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The Chokwe Tshibinda Ilunga figure from the Kimbel Art Museum. Image courtesy of Hughes Dubois, 1988. -
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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. -
Portrait of a chief wearing a large kapkap on the forehead (ca. 1920). Image courtesy of Galerie Meyer. -
Image courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery. -
Kongo nkisi nkondi power figure (mangaaka). Height: 118 cm. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2008.30). -
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. -
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. -
Mbembe mother and child figure. Height: 108 cm. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (#2010.256). -
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Image courtesy of the The Universities of Ghana and Manchester, and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) -
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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. -
Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. -
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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). -
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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(image courtesy of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cambridge) -
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