FANG ARTIST, BETSI GROUP
12 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.
With base: 39.7 x 11.7 x 10.5 cm; 15 5/8 x 4 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.
Further images
Provenance
Collection of Paul Guillaume, Paris;
Collection of Domenica Guillaume (born Juliette Lacaze, 1898-1977);
Maîtres Etienne Ader and Maurice Rheimes, Hôtel Drouot Paris, November 9, 1965, lot 147;
Simone de Monbrison, Paris;
Collection of Rosemary and George Lois, New York;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Collection of Drs. Marian and Daniel Malcolm, New Jersey;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Collection of Jeff Soref, New York, acquired from the above in 1997;
Sotheby's Paris, November 30, 2010, lot 27;
Lance Entwistle, London;
Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2010.
Exhibitions
African Negro Art. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 18 - May 19, 1935; Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire, June 10 – July 8, 1935; San Francisco Museum of Art, July 23-September 2, 1935; Cleveland Museum of Art, September 28-October 27, 1935; Arts Club of Chicago, November 15 – December 9, 1935; Milwaukee Art Institute, January 7-26, 1936; Baltimore Museum of Art, February 10-March 9, 1936; Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut, March 25 – April 14, 1936.
Fang. Musée Dapper, Paris, November 21, 1991 - April 15, 1992.
Eternal Ancestors, The Art of the Central African Reliquary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 2, 2007 - March 2, 2008.
Visual Encounters. Africa, Oceania and Modern Art / Bildwelten. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne. Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, January 25 - May 25, 2009.
The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts. LACMA, February 26 - July 9, 2017.
Publications
Sweeney, African Negro Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1935, p. 47, no. 363 (not illustrated).
Evans, African Negro Art: Photographs by Walker Evans. 1935, WE 313.
Art News: Special Issue, Museum of Primitive Art, January 1968, p. 23 (Advertisement: Simone de Monbrison).
Laburthe-Tolra, Philippe, and Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau, Fang. Paris: Musée Dapper, 1991, p. 105.
Lagamma, Alisa, Eternal Ancestors, The Art of the Central African Reliquary. 2007, p. 203, no. 46.
Wick, Oliver, and Antje Denner, eds., Bildgewaltig. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne. Basel: Fondation Beyeler/Christoph Merian Verlag, 2009, teil V, Reliquiarfiguren und - köpfe der Fang - Region, no. 21