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Buddha Ayuthaya, Thailand approx 17thC Height 6″H. 4 1/2″W Provenance Ex Morton Dimondstein Purchased in the 1940’s NYC Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Tsonga Staff SOUTH AFRICA Height 79.5 cm wood, cloth Provenance Purchased in Brussels in the 1960s Sotheby’s, New York, 29-30 April 1983, lot 67 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs Publications Cf. Nettleton, A. et al., Art and Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art, Johannesburg, 1991, p.30, pl.21 Price on Request contact us […]

Durga Bronze Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon Mahishursura Mardinini 13th-14th Century Height 6″ Provenance #19 Niblo Collection #19 Jsen Collection Legal Custum’s entrance into United States June 1962 Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Mangbetu Knife Handle and Sheath DRC Heights 11in (29.2cm) wood, pokerwork, metal, hide, vegetable fiber Provenance Galerie Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels Private Princely Collection Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Yoruba Gelede Mask Nigeria Late 19th-Early 20th Century wood, Pigment Provenance Tambaran Gallery (It was wrapped in newspaper from 1928 purchased from missionary family) Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Alison Rossiter (American, b. 1953) Canadian Kodak Azo, expired March 1942, processed 2017 (#3) Two Gelatin Silver Prints 10″x8″ (25.5x 20.5 cm) each element Framed: 13 1/4″ x 19 3/8″ (33.5 x 49 cm) Signed, Tittle and Dated Verso in Pencil AR. 17298 Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions […]

Yoruba Galede Mask Nigeria Height 8″ 12″ L Provenance Ex Merton Simpson Ex Eric Robertson Yoruba Gelede masks are worn by male dancers in festivals honoring the powerful spiritual and physical influence of women, particularly elder women and ancestors, known as “our mothers” or awọn iwa ya. These performances use dance and elaborate masks to […]

Teke Figure REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Height (19.5 cm) wood, cloth, fiber, magic material, metal Provenance Private collection, Brittany, France Acquired at the 2013 auction sale by Didier Claes, Brussels, Belgium, seller 2014 Nina & Henrikus Simonis Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany Exhibitions Brussels, Belgium: BRAFA 2014, Tour & Taxis, 25 January-2 February 2014 (Claes Gallery) Publications […]

Fante Female Shrine Figure Akan Culture Ghana Height 39 1/4in (99.7cm) wood, natural pigments, fiber, glass beads Provenance Herbert and Nancy Baker Collection, Los Angeles/Chicago Thence by descent James Willis Gallery, San Francisco James Stephenson African Art, New York Jerry Solomon Collection, Los Angeles Publications Cf. Robbins, Warren and Nancy Nooter, African Art in American […]

Baule Figure Ivory Coast 19th Century Height 20 in Provenance Private Collection Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Dogon Metal Mali 11″ H Provenance Ex Pace Primitive Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Nuna Pendant Burkina Faso Metal Copper Alloy Provenance Thomas Wheelock Collection #4418 Exhibit # 0888 Price on Request contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)  

Songye Figure Democratic Republic of the Congo nkisi Wood, brass height 9 1/4in (23.5cm) Provenance Irwin Hersey, New York Stewart Warkow, New York Alfie Schienberg, New York Published & Exhibited New York, Jamaica Arts Center, African Sculpture from the Stewart Warkow Collection, May 20 – June 5, 1977, fig. 10 Price on Request contact us […]

Shona Neckrest Appuie-nuque, Shona Zimbabwe 15,5 x 14 cm H 19th Century Provenance Private Collection contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Kongo Power Figure Democratic Republic of the Congo nkisi nduda Wood, glass, mirrored glass, chicken feathers 10 1/2in (27cm) H Provenance Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Geneva, Switzerland Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, London, 27 June 1983, Lot 56 Jacques Kerchache, Paris Sotheby’s New York, 15 November 1988, Lot 121 Private American Collection contact us for more information […]

Luba Knife 19th Century contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Antique Model Canoe Stern 19th Century Provenance Sotheby’s London Ex Philippe Goldman Ex John Gilstoff contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Jimini Pulley Ivory Coast 7 1/4″ H 19thCentury Provenance Published Arcade Gallery “An Exhibition of Baule Sculpture” Peter and Monica Wengraf Intimate Converstaions: African Miniatures contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Janus Songye Democratic Republic of the Congo 19th Century Provenance American Collection Published INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS: African miniatures P. 276-77 contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Bembe Figure Democratic Republic of the Congo 9″ (24 cm) H 19th Century Provenance Collection #12 American private collection contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Luba Katatora Kashekesheke Democratic Republic of the Congo 6″ H 19th Century Provenance Published: Memory: Luba Art and the Making of History. P. 183 Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)

Tabwa Axe Shaft Democratic Republic of the Congo 56.5 cm. long Provenance Maria Wyss, Basel Udo Horstmann, Zug Literature Maurer, E.M. and Roberts, A. F. (eds.), Tabwa The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, Ann Arbor, 1985, p.257, fig.265 Vogel, S. and Thompson, J., Closeup. Lessons in the art of seeing […]

Senufo Mask Côte d’Ivoire 12 3/8 in (31.5 cm) H Provenance JJ Klejmann Martin and Faith-Dorian Wright, New York Literature Dominique de Menil, Constant Companions: An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, Demons and Monsters, Phantasmal Creatures and Various Anatomical Assemblages, Houston, 1965, n.p. Exhibited University of Saint Thomas, Houston, Constant Companions: An Exhibition of Mythological Animals, […]

Bembe Figure 19cm H 19th Century Inagaki Base Provenance Private West Coast Collection contact us for more information Back to: New Acquisitions (click image to enlarge)