Female Figure

late 19th–early 20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood and pigment

Dimensions

25 9/16 × 7 5/16 × 7 1/2 in. (65 × 18.5 × 19 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2006.51.169

Geography

Guinea Coast, Cameroon

Culture

Mfumte

Period

19th–20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Maurice Bonnefoy (b.1920 in France–1999) (dealer, D’Arcy Galleries), New York and Garennes-sur-Eure, to March 14, 1977 [see note 1]; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn, 1977–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Note 1: D’Arcy Galleries operated from about February 1957 to June 1968, in New York; Bonnefoy continued to trade in objects and circulate exhibitions from his own signification collection of non-Western art through the 1980s.

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), 44, 158, ill
  • Frederick John Lamp, "Hot Space, Cool Space: The Reinstallation of the African Art Collection in the Louis Kahn Building at Yale University," African Arts 40 (Summer 2007), 44–45, fig. 13
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2006–June 30, 2007," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 4, ill
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222, 224, ill
  • Susan Vogel, Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, and Chris Muller, Exhibition-ism: Museums and African Art, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1994–95), 119, fig. 17
  • 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), 156-157, fig. 88
  • Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 308, fig. 785
  • Susan Vogel, Perspectives: Angles on African Art, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1987), 63, ill
  • William Rubin, "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, 2 vols., exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984), vol. 1, p. 40, ill
  • Susan Vogel, African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise, exh. cat. (Greenvale, N.Y.: C. W. Post Gallery, 1980), 29, no. 103, ill
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
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Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

women

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