Equestrian Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

early 20th century

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 12 × 2 1/4 × 5 1/8in. (30.48 × 5.715 × 13.018 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.521
Geography: Upper Benue River, Nigeria
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Rousset: unknown dates
Alfred L. Scheinberg, Inc., New York: unknown date-Oct. 7, 1985;
Charles B. Benenson Collection, donated to Yale University Art Gallery in 2004

Bibliography

Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 293, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

Susan Vogel and Jerry L. Thompson, Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1990), 154, fig. 86

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

equestrians

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