Description : Wood - 218 cm
Sudan
Provenance
Collected by Christian Duponcheel
in the vicinity of Tonj in 1972
Acquired from above in 1973
Private collection, Brussels
As Bernard de Grunne wrote in his about the Bongo figures,
Bongo art had been know by few specialists, no major Bongo
work appeared in any Western public collection until Belgian
dealer Christian Duponcheel went to Sudan in 1972, just after
the cease-fire of 1972 of a long civil war which had started in
1955. He collected eleven anthropomorphic figures collected
in the vicinity of Tonj. There figures were sold to the different
institutions and major private collections :
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Menil Foundation, Houston,
Art Gallery of Ontario, Gift of Barbara and Murray Frum,
Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva,
British Museum, London,
Two of them to the Collection of Georg Baselitz, former
collection of Freddy Rolin,
Private collection, Belgium, former Collection Count
Baudouin de Grunne,
New York private collection,
Collection Wally and Udo Horstmann,
Private collection, former Raymond A. Britt Family collection.
The figure presented here represents the 12th know and
classified figure of the Duponcheel group. Standing in the same
position of the figure of the former de Grunne collection with
a raised arm, a great presence exudes from this monumental
figure. Despite its condition due to its age and the conditions
of collection, this figure impose a impression of dignity
and majesty.
The Duponcheel expedition really put Bongo statuary on
the map of African art history. Since the 1980's a number
of statues and posts have reached Europe. Thank to the interest
of this important style, these abandoned funerary sculptures
have been saved from destruction, fire and civil disturbance
associated also at one point with Muslim occupation in
the region.
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