Janus Torso | Yale University Art Gallery

early to mid-20th century

Medium: Wood and pigment
Dimensions: 16 × 6 × 5 in. (40.64 × 15.24 × 12.7 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.473
Geography: Guinea Coast, Liberia, or Guinea Coast, Côte d'Ivoire
Culture: Bassa
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn; 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), 275, ill

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

Richard Barnes, "Objects of Desire," Yale Alumni Magazine (September/October 2004), 37, ill

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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

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