Human Figure | Yale University Art Gallery

early 20th century

Medium: Wood
Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 4 × 4 in. (24.13 × 10.16 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.495
Geography: Cameroon
Culture: Bamileke
Period: 20th century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

John Friede (b. 1938), New York, from 1965; F. Rolin & Co., New York, before 1984; 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), 284, ill.

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

Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 322, fig. 829.

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), human figures (visual works), sculpture

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