Songye Head from a Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Reportedly collected in the village of Samba
Edith Hafter, Solothurn and Zurich
Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp
Christie's, Amsterdam, December 7, 1998, lot 183, consigned by the above
Galerie Simonis, Dusseldorf, acquired at the above auction
Private Collection, Cologne, acquired from the above
Didier Claes, Brussels
Alain Naoum, Brussels
Acquired from the above on March 10, 2018

François Neyt, Songye. La redoubtable statuaire Songye d’Afrique centrale, Antwerp, 2004, p. 223, cat. no. 189
François Neyt, Songye: The Formidable Statuary of Central Africa, New York, 2009, p. 223, cat. no. 189
Werner Schmalenbach, Afrikanische Kunst aus Kölner Privatsammlungen, Cologne, 2010, p. 10
Phillip Troy Linger, "In Perspective", Art and Antiques, February 2018, p. 24