Yombe Maternity phemba

Yombe Maternity phemba - now in the collection of the Private Collection - image 1

Attributed to the Master of the De Briey Maternity
Kongo peoples, Yombe sub-group, Democratic Republic of
the Congo
Wood
Height: 29.5 cm

Provenance
Frits vanden Berghe, Gent
Monsieur et Madame Muller van Isterbeek, Brussels

Selected Exhibition History
13 May-30 June 1977, Brussels, Société Générale de Banque, La Maternité dans les Arts Premiers/Het Moederschap in de Primitive Kunsten 5 March-17 April 1977, Brussels, Credit Communal de Belgique , Oerkunsten van zwart Afrika/Arts Premiers d'Afrique Noire 22 March-24 June 2001, Brussels, BBL Cultuurcentrum, Masterhands/Mains des Maîtres 28 April-7 July 2002, Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, Figuren Afrikas. Meisterwerke einer Privatsammlung

Selected Publication History
Frans M. Olbrechts, Plastiek van Kongo, Antwerp, 1946, # III, 13
Raoul Lehuard, Les Phemba du Mayombe, Arnouville, 1977, p 13, fig U 14
Ezio Bassani, ‘Due grandi artisti yombe’, in : Cretica d'arte africana, Florence, (July-September 1981) , nr 178, fig 17
Raoul Lehuard, Art Bakongo - Les Centres de Style, Vol. II, Arnouville, 1989, p 460, fig J-1-1-3
Bernard de Grunne, Masterhands-Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker/Mains des Maîtres-A la découverte des sculptures d'Afrique, Brussels, 2001, p 173, cat 46
Patricia Rochard, Ed., Figuren Afrikas. Meisterwerke einer Privatsammlung, Ingelheim, 2002, pp 104-105, fig 37

 

Acquired from Entwistle by
Private Collection