Bena Luluwa Female Figure mbulenga

Bena Luluwa Figure - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1

Bena Luluwa peoples, Bakwa Ndolo sub-group
Kasai River district, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wood
Height: 49 cm

Provenance
Collected in the field by Dr. T. Fourche, before 1940
Musée Royale du Congo Belge, Tervuren
Emile Deletaille, (circa 1975, by exchange)
Marc Ginzberg, New York
Private Collection, USA

Selected Exhibition History
1980 Greenvale, NY, Long Island University (C.W. Post College), African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise
1987 New York, Centre for African Art, Perspectives: Angles on African Art

Selected Publication History
Susan Mullin Vogel, African Sculpture: The Shape of Surprise, Long Island, 1980, cat 184
Susan Mullin Vogel et al, Perspectives: Angles on African Art, New York, 1987, pp 168-9
Frank Willett, African Art: An Introduction, New York, 1971, p 190 [labelled British Museum]

Acquired from Entwistle by
Private Collection

Bena Luluwa Figure - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1 Bena Luluwa Figure - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 2