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BAMILEKE ARTIST, Standing Male Figure, Cameroon, late 19th-early 20th century

BAMILEKE ARTIST

Standing Male Figure, Cameroon, late 19th-early 20th century
Wood
h. 27.3 cm
10 3/4 in.
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Provenance

Ex Galerie Khepri, Amsterdam, 1968

Christie's London. Important Tribal Art. 23 June 1992, lot 68

Ex Entwistle, London

Binoche et Giquello. Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie. 14 November 2019, lot 32

Ex private collection, New York

Exhibitions

Art in Cameroon: Sculptural Dialogues. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.

23 April - 14 August 2011

Publications

Lehuard, Raoul. Auction review of Les ventes. Arts d'Afrique Noire. no. 83, Autumn 1992, p. 63

Jean-Baptiste Bacquart. The Tribal Arts of Africa: Surveying Africa's Artistic Geography. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998, 2000. p.109. fig.12

Brincard, Marie-Therese, ed. Art in Cameroon: Sculptural Dialogues. Purchase, NY: Neuberger Museum of Art. 2011, p. 33, no. 28

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