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Male Figure

Dogon · Possibly 18th century

Provenance

Ownership history

The Schanté Collection, Paris, by the 1960s [according to personal communication with Denyse Ginzberg dated Feb. 21, 2014, in curatorial file; object information from L & R Entwistle Gallery, 1996]. Gaston T. de Havenon (died 1993), The de Havenon Collection, New York, N.Y., by 1971 to 1975 [see Museum of African Art, 1971]; sold to Marc and Denyse Ginzberg, New York, N.Y., 1975 [according to personal communication with Denyse Ginzberg dated Feb. 21, 2014, in curatorial file]; consigned to Lance Entwistle, L & R Entwistle Gallery, London, 1996; sold to the Art Institute, 1996.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Washington, D.C., National Museum of African Art, The de Havenon Collection, May 1971–Apr. 1972, cat. 28.
Long Island, N.Y., C.W. Post Art Gallery, African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise, Feb. 17–Mar. 30, 1980, cat. 1.
Art Institute of Chicago, African Abstraction: Dogon Figurative Sculpture, July 3–Oct. 20, 1996, no cat.

Literature

Museum of African Art, The de Havenon Collection, exh. cat. (Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., 1971), cat. 28.
Raoul Lehuard, "La Collection Marc Ginzburg," Arts d'Afrique Noire, no. 25 (Arnouville: 1978), pp. 5-10; 6 (ill.).
Susan Vogel, African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise, exh. cat. (C.W. Post Art Gallery School of the Arts, 1980), p. 9, cat. 1.
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), pp. 60 (ill.).
Hélène LeLoup, Dogon Statuary (Strasbourg: Éditions Amez, 1994), figs. 121 and 122.
Kathleen Birckford and Cherise Smith, “Art of the Western Sudan,” African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies, vo. 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 110 (ill.).
Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 5, pp. 36-37.

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