Kongo Seated Figure

Kongo Seated Figure - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1

Kongo peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ivory
Height: 16 cm

Provenance
Morris J. Pinto, Paris

Selected Publication History
Souren Melikian, ‘African and Oceanic Art: Living with It’, in: Réalités, n° 273, August 1973, fig 64
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Washington, D.C., 1989, p 366, fig 953
Marc Leo Felix, ed., White Gold, Black Hands: Ivory Sculpture in Congo, vol. 2, Ququhar, 2010, p 167, fig 859a
Heinrich Schweizer, Visions of Grace: 100 Masterpieces from the Collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Milan, 2014, p 179, fig 70

Acquired from Entwistle by
Private Collection