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Lot 191 D α

PAIR OF DOGON FIGURES

Auction 1045 - overview Brussels
27.01.2015, 14:00 - African and Oceanic Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
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PAIR OF DOGON FIGURES
Mali

65 cm. high

Sold with a certificate from CIRAM (Centre d’Innovation et de Recherche pour l’Analyse et le Marquage), Bordeaux, dated 1 June 2010, attesting that the result of their C14 test indicates that the most probable date of the wood is the 16th or beginning of the 17th century.

Provenance

Peter Natan Gallery, Denver
Don and Serene Flax, Scottsdale, Arizona
Kathy van der Pas and Steven Van de Raadt, Rotterdam

Literature

African Arts, 1976, Vol.IX, no.4, p.83
Breunig, R.G., "Animal, Bird and Myth in African Art", Phoenix, 1985, p.4, fig.11
Van de Raadt, S. and Van der Pas, K., "Art from Mali", 1993, no.4.

Exhibitions

The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 12 April-13 October, 1985, "Animal, Bird and Myth in African Art"
Rotterdam, May 1993, "Art from Mali"
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 12 December 2004 - 6 March 2005, "Out of Africa"