Provenance
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (1912-1913 or earlier) - see supplementary image
Maurice de Vlaminck, Paris and thence by descent
André Fourquet, Paris
Alain de Monbrison, Paris
Saul and Marsha Stanoff, Tarzana, CA (acquired from the above 1980s)
Sotheby's New York, May 17, 2007, Lot 19
Private Collection, USA (acquired at the above auction)
Selected Exhibition History
21 February – 26 April 1987, Richmond, VA, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Perspectives: Angles on African Art
18 September 1987 – 3 January 1988, New York, The Center for African Art, New York, Perspectives: Angles on African Art
31 January – 27 March 1988, Birmingham, AL, Perspectives: Angles on African Art
1 April – 15 September 1993, Paris, Musée Dapper, Formes et Couleurs. Sculptures de l'Afrique Noire
26 February – 9 July 2017, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts
Selected Publication History
William Rubin, Ed., Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinities of the Tribal and the Modern, New York, 1984, vol. 1, p. 301
William Rubin, Ed., Le "Primitivisme" dans l'Art du 20e Siècle, Paris, 1987, pp. 343 - 344
Susan Vogel, Ed., Perspectives: Angles on African Art, New York, 1987, cover page and p. 60
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat and Lucien Stéphan, L’Art Africain, Paris, 1988, p. 382,
fig. 357
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat and Lucien Stéphan, Art of Africa, New York, 1993, p. 382, Fig. 357
Christine Falgayrettes-Leveau and Lucien Stéphan, Formes et Couleurs: Sculptures de l'Afrique Noir, Paris, 1993, p. 171
Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau et al, Masques, Paris, 1995, p. 215
David Deroche, ‘Monumental Miniatures: The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection,’ in: Tribal Art, 32 (Autumn 2003), cover and p. 69, fig. 14
Jean-Paul Barbier, ‘Short Meditative Chronicle...on Auction Sales and Montagnes Russes.’ In: Arts and Cultures, Geneva and Barcelona, 2008, p. 298, fig. 12