Human Figure with Two Heads | Yale University Art Gallery

late 19th–early 20th century

Medium: Wood and encrustation
Dimensions: 8 7/8 × 2 9/16 × 1 3/4 in. (22.5 × 6.5 × 4.5 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.235
Geography: Sahel, Mali
Culture: Dogon
Period: 19th–20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Jay C. Leff, Uniontown, Pennsylvania: unknown dates
New York. Sotheby Parke Bernet, Oct. 10-11, 1975
Pace Gallery, New York: unknown date-May 25, 1979
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), 188, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, Important African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian Art Property of Jay C. Leff, sale cat. (October 10–11, 1975), no. 171, ill

Art of Black Africa: Collection of Jay C. Leff, exh. cat. (Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1969), no. 11

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Object/Work type

figures (representations), human figures (visual works)

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