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FANG ANCESTOR FIGURE, GABON

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