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Artworks
KOTA ARTIST
Reliquary Figure, bwele, Gabon, late 19th-early 20th centuryWood, copper, brass,
iron53.3 x 25.7 x 8.9 cm
21 x 10 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.Provenance
Ex J.J. Klejman, New York
Ex collection Paul M. Ingersoll (1929-2012), Philadelphia, 1969-1991
Christie's London. 18 June 1991, lot 134
Ex Daniel Hourdé, Paris
Ex collection Hubert Goldet
de Ricqlès-Maison de la Chimie, Paris. Arts Primitifs, Collection Hubert Goldet. 30 June-1 July 2001, lot 273
Ex Lance Entwistle, London
Ex private collection, New York, 2001-2025Exhibitions
Primitive to Picasso, St. Paul's Alumni Collection, M. Knoedler & Co., 1968
Impact Africa. African Art and the West. The Inaugural Exhibition of the Bernice McLLhennyWintersteen Stuart Center. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 24 January - 30 June 1969
Lumière Noire. Arts Traditionnels. Château de Tanlay, Tanlay, France. 7 June - 5 October 1997
Eternal Ancestors - The Art of the Central African Reliquary. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2 October 2007 - 2 March 2008
The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts. LACMA, Los Angeles. 26 February - 9 July 2017
Publications
M. Knoedler & Co., Primitive to Picasso, St. Paul's Alumni Collection. New York: Knoedler and Co., 1968, no. 7
Impact Africa. African Art and the West. The Inaugural Exhibition of the Bernice McLLhenny Wintersteen Stuart Center. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969
Chaffin, Alain and Francois Chaffin. L'Art Kota. Les Figures de Reliquaire. Meudon, 1979, p. 180, no. 87
Primitifs, No. 5, July - August 1991, p. 8. (Advertisement: Hourdé, Paris)
Morris, Susan, "Souvenir d'Afrique". The Antique Collector, Vol. 64, No. 9, London, October 1993, p. 71
Lumière Noire. Arts Traditionnels. Château de Tanlay-Centre d'Art Contemporain, 1997, no. 59
LaGamma, Alisa. Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 242, no. 71
