Female Figure

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood and pigment

Dimensions

19 7/16 × 9 × 2 5/8 in. (49.3 × 22.9 × 6.7 cm)

Credit Line

Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection

Accession Number

2006.51.58

Geography

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Culture

Lega

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Jacques Blankaert, Brussels. Helene and Philippe Leloup, New York and Paris: to November 30, 1984; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn, 1984–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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), 106, 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), 178-179, fig. 109
  • Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 478, no. 1228
  • Francois Neyt, Arts Traditionnels et Histoire au Zaire: Cultures Forestie`res et Royaumes de la Savane, exh. cat. (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Institut Superieur d'Archeologie et d'Histoire De l'Art, 1981), fig. III.9
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

women

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