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n° 81
Titre : A Rare Dogon Cliff Painting, Mali
Dimensions : measurements note height 14 1/4 in. 36.2 cm width 13 3/4 in. 35 cm Provenance : Collected in situ by Pierre Langlois, 1951Galerie Kamer, New YorkWerner Muensterberger, New York, acquired form the above in the early 1960sLiterature : Warren M. Robbins, African Art in American Collections. L'Art Africain dans les Collections Americaines, New York, Washington and London, 1966, p. 54, fig. 24 George Nelson Preston, "Dr. Werner Muensterberger", Tribal Art, 39, Autumn/Winter 2005, p. 117, fig. 5Notes : PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTIONUnlike three-dimensional art forms, the interest in two-dimensional artistic expression in pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa was limited and evidence is scarce. One of the few examples are the cliffs in the proximity of the Dogon village Songo where red, white and black pigments applied to stone evoke anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and abstract images. The creation of these paintings accompanies the local rituals surrounding the circumcision of young boys. However, the practice of ritual painting seems to be unique to this location and has not been observed in the rest of Dogon territory. For an in situ photograph of the cliff paintings see Leiris and Delange (1967: 261, fig. 295). The Muensterberger painting, collected in situ in 1951 and first published in 1966, is one of four paintings known in western collections. The others are: two in the Collection of the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (formerly Musée de l'Homme, Paris nos. '31.74.2062' and '31.74.2085'; and a third, representing a lizard, which was published in Laude (1973: no. 84).Sotheby's, Salle de vente
, New York, US
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Titre de la vente : African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
Date de la vente : 16/05/2008
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