LWENA ARTIST
12 1/4 in.
Provenance
Collected by Maurice Matton in Kinda, Kamina territory, South Shaba 1939;
Collection of Annie and Jean-Pierre Jernander, Brussels;
de Quay/Lombrail, Paris, Collection A. et J.-P. Jernander, 26 June 1996;
Collection of Michael Oliver, New York;
Sotheby's, New York. African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art. 15 May 2015, lot 114;
Private collection, New York.Exhibitions
Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. 31 October 1970-17 January 1971.
Oerkunsten van zwart Afrika/Arts Premiers d'Afrique Noire. Crédit Communal de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium. 5 March-17 April 1977.
Publications
Bastin, Marie-Louise, "L'Art d'un Peuple d'Angola, II: Lwena ", African Arts, Vol. II, no.2, 1969, cover.
Leuzinger, Elsy. Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1970. p. 294, #U21.
Leuzinger, Elsy. The Art of Black Africa. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. p. 310-311, fig. U22.
Leuzinger, Elsy. Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika. Recklinhausen: Aurel Bongers, 1972. p. 310-311, fig.U22.
Winizki, Ernst. Gesichter Afrikas: Visages d'Afrique: Faces of Africa. Zürich: Kunstkreis, Luzern, 1972. p.170-171.