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Oklenyi of Akungaga

Idoma Shrine Figure
Nigeria
Mid 20th century
Wood, pigments
height 39 cm
height 15 3/8 in
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Provenance

Private Collection, 1989

Ader-Picard-Tajan, Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 27 February 1989. Lot 47.

Alain Dufour / Galerie Afrique, Saint-Maur/Ramatuelle, France

Collection Henriette Beybot, France

Yves Develon, Paris, France

Collection Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France, 2008

Christie’s, Paris, 27 June 2018, lot 58.

Private Collection, Belgium, 2018

Exhibitions

“Fragments du Vivant. Sculptures Africaines dans la collection Durand-Dessert”, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France, 10-24 September 2008

“Arts du Nigeria dans les collections privées françaises”, Musée de La Civilisation, Quebec, Canada, 24 October 2012 - 21 April 2013

Publications

Neyt (François), “Les Arts de la Benué, aux racines des traditions”

=”The Arts of the Benue, to the roots of tradition”,

Tielt: Editions Hawaiin Agronomics, 1985, p. 99, #III.12

Paudrat (Jean-Louis) et al., “Fragments du Vivant. Sculptures Africaines dans la collection Durand-Dessert”, Milan: 5 Continents, 2008, pp. 201-202

Expo cat.: “Arts du Nigeria dans les collections privées françaises / Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections”, ed. by Alain Lebas,

Milan: 5 Continents, 2012, p. 206, p. 280, #138

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