Dallas Museum of Art acquires two objects from the Allan Stone collection

November 22, 2013
Ejagham headcrest, Cross River Region, Nigeria. Height: 68,6 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.
Ejagham headcrest, Cross River Region, Nigeria. Height: 68,6 cm. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.

The Dallas Museum of Art has acquired two outstanding works of African art at Sotheby’s New York auction of the Collection of Allan Stone. These important new acquisitions include the the four-horned Songye figurewhich sold for $ 2,165,000 (est. $ 600K-900K), and a rare (also horned!) Ejagham headcrest which was bought for $ 305,000 (est. $ 100.-150K) – according to Sotheby’s, the most major example of its kind to remain in private hands.

 

Both acquisitions strengthen the museum’s collection of African art, a collection of nearly 2,000 works mainly coming from two important collections: the Clark and Frances Stillman Collection of Congo Sculpture and the collection of Gustave and Franyo Schindler. Read more about their collection in this freely available book -> blog post October 27, 2013: The Arts of Africe at the Dallas Museum of Art (Walker, 2009)).

 

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UPDATE: I forgot to mention that last year the Dallas Museum of Art bought the Rosekrans Urhobo.

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