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Provenance
Provenance
With Nangu Ndiaye (dealer, died 2008), Brussels, by about 1978–1990 [see note 1]; sold to Pierre Loos (Galerie Ambre-Congo), Brussels, about 1978–1990; sold to Andres Moraga (San Francisco Tribal), Berkeley, Calif., by 2013; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023
Note 1: According to Pierre Loos, Nangu Ndiaye acquired riga directly from wealthy Hausa families in Nigeria. (Pierre Loos, letter to the Gallery, January 31, 2023, curatorial file)