Bowl for Ṣàngó (Arugbá Ṣàngó) Artist: Dàda, known as Aréó-ògún-yàn-ná of Òsi-Ìlọrin (Yorùbá, ca. 1880–1954)

early to mid-20th century

African Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Wood and pigment

Dimensions

44 × 21 × 20 in. (111.76 × 53.34 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

2006.51.287

Geography

Òsi, Kwara State, Nigeria

Culture

Yorùbá, Èkìti subgroup

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Maurice Bonnefoy (dealer, D’Arcy Galleries), New York and Garennes-sur-Eure, France, by 1972 [see note]; sold to Charles B. Benenson (1913–2004, b.a. 1933), Greenwich, Conn., by 2004; bequeathed to the Yale University Art

NOTE: D’Arcy Galleries operated in New York from about February 1957 to June 1968. Maurice Bonnefoy continued to trade in objects and circulate exhibitions from his own significant 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), 76, 206, fig. 20
  • "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222
  • Alisa LaGamma, "Beyond Master Hands: The Lives of the Artists," African Arts 31, no. 4 (Autumn 1998), 25, 35
  • 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), 144, fig. 73
Object copyright
Copyright Undetermined
Additional information

Subject

bowls (vessels) men women

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