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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Images courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. -
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Mumuye figure. Height: 99 cm (including base). Image courtesy of the Fondation Beyeler. -
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Image by B. Glauser. Courtesy of the MEG. -
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. -
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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. -
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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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). -
A group of Hungana ivories acquired from Umlauff in 1912. Image courtesy of the Penn Museum. -
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Image courtesy of Guido Musch. Other pictures by me. -
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A sowei in costume with attendants, Njahindama, Kakua, Bo, Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Ruth Phillips. -
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Mbole figure. Height: 69,5 cm. Image courtesy of the MAS (# AE.0673). -
Jo Van De Vijver © KMMA – MRAC. -
Nkanu panel. Height: 43,8 cm. Image courtesy of the MAS (# AE.1961.0077). -
Standing male figure. Bini or Edo, Nigeria. Height: 56,5 cm. Image courtesy of The Barnes Foundation (A230). -
Image courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts. -
Sapi-Portuguese bust. Image courtesy of the British Museum (BM:Af.9037). -
Ejagham headcrest, Cross River Region, Nigeria. Height: 68,6 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s. -
Image courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. -
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Image: BC. -
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Kongo-Vili figure; height: 38,5 cm. Image courtesy of the Musée du quai Branly (#71.1930.29.322). -
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Below a list of links to the online collection databases of museums with African art in their possession.
US
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven)
Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania)
Brooklyn Museum
American Museum of Natural History(New York)
Birmingham Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Fowler Museum (Los Angeles)
Saint Louis Art Museum
National Museum of African Art(Washington)
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Amherst College
Princeton University Art Museum
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia)
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Peabody Museum (Harvard University)
Cincinnati Art Museum
Indiana University Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum
University of Michigan Museum of ArtCanada
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
UK
British Museum (London)
Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford)
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (Norwich)
Horniman Museum (London)
Wellcome Collection (London)
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) (Cambridge)Belgium
Royal Museum for Central Africa(Tervuren)
Museum aan de Stroom (Antwerp, former Ethnographic Museum)France
Musée du quai Branly (Paris, in French)
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de ParisThe Netherlands
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen(Rotterdam, Leiden, Amsterdam & Berg en Dal)
Germany
Ethnologisches Museum (Berlin)
Linden Museum (Stuttgart)Spain
Museu de Cultures del Mon de Barcelona(in Spanish)
National Museum of Anthropology(Madrid, in Spanish)
Fundacion La Fontana (Barcelona)Switzerland
Musée d’ethnographie de Genève
Rietberg Museum (Zürich)
Musée Barbier-Mueller (Genève)
Museum Der Kulturen Basel (under construction)Other Countries
Museum for World Cultures (Gothenburg)
Israel Museum (Jerusalem)
Ethnografiska Museet (Stockholm)
Kunstkamera (Saint Petersburg)
Budapest Museum of EthnographyWall of Shame (no database available)
World Museum (Liverpool)
Manchester Museum
Museum La Rochelle (France)