
Auction Closed
June 30, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FANG ANCESTOR FIGURE, GABON
Wood
Height: 17 ½ in (44.5 cm)
Gaston de Havenon, New York
de Quay-Lombrail, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, Collection Gaston de Havenon - New York, June 30, 1994, lot 33
Henri Ronald Nasser, New York, acquired at the above auction
American Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 1998, lot 215, consigned by the above
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired at the above auction with the assistance of Merton D. Simpson, New York
Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., African Art: the de Havenon Collection, May 30 - October 3, 1971
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, January 31 - April 18, 1999
Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the de Havenon Collection, Washington, D.C., 1971, n.p., fig. 182
Allen Wardwell, Three African Traditions: the Art of the Dogon, Fang and Songye, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1999, p. 22, cat. no. 30