Provenance
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels (collected in Cameroon in the late 1960s)
Henri Kamer, Paris
Entwistle, London (acquired from the above, 1978)
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, NY, (acquired from the above, 1979)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (bequeathed by the above, 2015)
Selected Exhibition History
21 September 2011-29 January 2012, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures
26 February 2012-3 June 2012, Zurich, Museum Rietberg, Helden: Ein Neuer Blick auf die Kunst Afrikas
Permanent Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [Acc. 2015.753]
Selected Publication History
Arts d'Afrique Noire, no.10, 1974, p. 13 (Kamer & Cie, Paris)
Werner Gillon, Collecting African Art, London & New York, 1979,
pl. 10 (r)
Alisa LaGamma, Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures, New York, 2011, pp. 118 and 133, cat. 121
Alisa LaGamma, Helden: Ein Neuer Blick auf die Kunst Afrikas, Zurich, 2012, pp. 118 and 133, cat. 121