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Artworks
TEKE ARTIST
Seated Figure, buti, Democratic Republic of the Congo, late 19th-early 20th centuryWood, glass, cowrie
shell, resin, organic
matter, brassh. 29.3 cm
11 3/4 in.Provenance
Ex collection Jacques Deprince, Brussels
Ex collection Count Baudouin de Grunne, Brussels, 1990
Ex Bernard de Grunne, Brussels
Ex private collection, New York, 1990-2025
Exhibitions
Utotombo - L'Art de l'Afrique Noire dans les Collections Privées Belges. Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 25 March - 5 June 1988
Afrikanische Skulptur - Die Erfindung der Figur / African Sculpture - The Invention of the Figure:
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 27 July - 30 September 1990
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, November 1990 - January 1991
Eternal Ancestors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2 October 2007 - 2 March 2008
Publications
Bastin, Marie-Louise. Introduction aux Arts de l'Afrique Noire. Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1984, p. 291, no. 304
De Heusch, Luc et al. Utotombo: Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch Privé-Bezit. Brussels: Palais des Beaux Arts, 1988, p. 96, no. XXVIII
Göhr, Siegfried et al. Afrikanische Skulptur: Die Erfindung der Figur / African Sculpture: The
Invention of the Figure. Museum Ludwig, Cologne and The Hague, 1990, p. 172, no. 77
Lehuard, Raoul. Les Arts Bateke: Congo - Gabon - Zaire. Arnouville: Arts d'Afrique Noire, 1996, p. 263, fig. 1.2
Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste. The Tribal Arts of Africa. London: Thames & Hudson. French translation: L'art Tribal d'Afrique Noire. Paris: Editions Assouline, 1998, p. 315, fig. D
LaGamma, Alisa. Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 302-303, no. 111
