About the lot N° 13
Title : KOTA-OBAMBA RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON |
Size : Height: 17 1/8 in (43.5 cm)Provenance : Max Itzikowitz, Paris, acquired at the marché aux puces, Saint-Ouen in 1979
Private Collection, acquired from the above
Daniel Hourdé, Paris
Roland de Montaigu, New York
Edwin and Cherie Silver, Los Angeles, acquired from the above on September 15, 1986Literature : Alain Chaffin and Françoise Chaffin,
L'art Kota. Les figures de reliquaire, Meudon, 1979, pp. 156-157 and p. 330, cat. no. 65
Louis Perrois,
Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, rear cover and fig. 198
Daniel Hourdé, advertisement,
Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 46, Summer 1983, p. 45
Daniel Hourdé, advertisement,
Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 47, Autumn 1983, p. 31
Gérard Delorme, 'Réflextions sur l’art funéraire KOTA',
Arts d'Afrique Noire, No. 122, Summer 2002, pp. 33 and 38 (line drawings)
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary, 2007, private view invitation
Alisa LaGamma,
Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p. 241, cat. no. 70Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : The Collection of Edwin & Cherie Silver
Sale date : 13 Nov 2017
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Sale Reference : Live Sale
