Four-figured shrine sculpture · Nigeria, Igbo · ID: 3046231

Name: Four-figured shrine sculpture
SKU: 3046231
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Morton Dimondstein, Los Angeles, USA
Marc Franklin, Portland, USA
James Willis, San Francisco, USA
Sotheby’s, New York, 18 November 1997, Lot 214

Size

H: 45,5 cm

H: 17.9 inch

Description

wood, pigments, rest. (base), pedestal

The object Four-figured shrine sculpture with the object ID 3046231 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 196.

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Publications

Cole, Herbert M. and Aniakor, Chike C., "Igbo Arts, Community and Cosmos", Los Angeles,1984, p. 93, ill. 174

AHDRC: 0093559

Exhibition

"Igbo Arts. Community and Cosmos", Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Gallery, 9 October - 25 November 1984; New York: The Center for African Art, 12 March - 16 June 1985; Washington D.C.: National Museum of African Art, 31 July - 13 October 1985; Birmingham (Alabama), Birmingham Museum of Art, 5 January – 2 March 1986; Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 10 April –15 June 1986

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