Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels
Claude-Henri Pirat, Brussels
Selected Exhibition History
25 March-5 June 1988, Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch prive-bezit
22 March-24 June 2001, Brussels, BBL Cultuurcentrum, Masterhands/Mains des Maîtres
21 September 2011-29 January 2012, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
Selected Publication History
François Neyt, La Grande Statuaire Hemba du Zaire, Louvain-la- Neuve, 1977, pp 318-20
Luc de Heusch et al, Utotombo. Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch Prive-bezit, Brussels, 1988, p 111, cat XXXIII
Claude-Henri Pirat, ‘The Buli Master. Isolated Master or Atelier. Toward a Catalogue Raisonne’, in: Tribal Arts, Summer 1996
Bernard de Grunne, Ed., Masterhands-Afrikaanse Beeldhouwers in der Kiljker/Mains de Maîtres-A la Découverte des Sculpteurs d’Afrique, Brussels, 2001, p 205, cat 60
Ezio Bassani, Africa. Capolavori da un Continente, Turin, 2003,
cat 261
Mary Nooter Roberts & Allen F. Roberts, Luba, Milan, 2007, p 127,
pl 15
Alisa LaGamma, Helden: Ein Neuer Blick auf die Kunst Afrikas, Zurich, 2012, pp 264-265, cat 225
Heinrich Schweizer, Visions of Grace: 100 Masterpieces from the Collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Milan, 2014, pp. 228-231, fig. 92