Anonymous Mama artist
Early 20th century
Wood
height 20 1/2 in
Provenance
Alain Dufour, Saint-Maur/Ramatuelle, France
Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium, ca. 1970
Herbert & Nancy Baker, Chicago/Los Angeles, CA, USA 1973
Collection Milton D. Ratner, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1992
Sotheby’s, New York, 24 June 1992, lot 177.
Galerie Lance and Roberta Entwistle,
London/Paris, United Kingdom/France
Private collection, 2020
Binoche et Giquello, Paris, 6 November 2020, lot 49.
Javier Peres Collection, Berlin, Germany, 2020
Duende Art Projects, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024
Exhibitions
“Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples; The Milton D.Ratner Collection”, Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., USA, 29 June 1977-16 April 1978
Publications
Drewal (Henry J.), “Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples; The Milton D.Ratner Collection”, Washington, D.C.:Museum of African Art, 1977, #49
Robbins (Warren M.) and Nooter (Nancy Ingram),
“African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989”, Washington/London:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, p. 294, #758