Female Figure (Akua'ba) | Yale University Art Gallery

late 20th century

Medium: Wood, metal, glass beads, string, and pigment
Dimensions: 18 5/16 × 8 1/4 × 2 15/16 in. (46.5 × 21 × 7.5 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.306
Geography: Kumasi, Guinea Coast, Ghana
Culture: Asante
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Michael Kan, Detroit: unknown date - Sept. 2, 1980
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), 214, ill.

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006): 222.

Frederick John Lamp, "Charles Benenson and His Legacy of African Art to Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 30, ill.

Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, exh. cat. (Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1993), n.p., ill.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), sculpture

women

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