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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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). -
Image courtesy of De Zwaan. -
Image: BC. -
Image: BC. Left dagger courtesy of the Grace Collection of African Art. -
Kongo-Vili figure; height: 38,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly (#71.1930.29.322). -
Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
“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 Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA (#X2007.21.63). -
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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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) -
(image courtesy of Native) -
(image courtesy of Native) -
(Image courtesy of Néret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou) -
“Gwan” mother and child figure. (Museum Associates / LACMA, 2013)
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