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Provenance
Provenance
With Amadu Sellah, New York, by September 1995 (inv. no. 95.3); sold to Dr. Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011), Pound Ridge, New York, September 17, 1995 [see note 1]; by descent to his wife, Noriko Yamamoto Prince (died 2022), Pound Ridge, New York, 2011; by inheritance to their children, Lisa Tatsuko Prince Fishler and Boku Prince, Pound Ridge, New York, 2022; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023
Note 1: Dr. Alfred M. Prince Collection Log Book, no date (copy in curatorial file). Dr. Alfred M. Prince (1928–2011) was a virologist who ran laboratories at the New York Blood Center and at Vilab II, in Liberia, West Africa. He was a Yale undergrad (BA 1949), received his MD from Case Western Reserve University, and completed his medical residency at the Yale Medical School. He collected art during the 45-year period he worked in Africa and donated numerous objects to Yale collections, including the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Peabody Museum. For more on the life of Alfred Prince, including his art collecting, see: A.M. Prince, My Life with Viruses, Friends and Enemies, 2008, Xlibris.