Gabon
M’pongwe Mukuyi Mask
Carved wood and pigments
Early 20th century
Height: 11 in. (28 cm)
Field-collected before 1918
Ex private collection, Lyon, France
Ex Tajan, Paris, Dec. 20, 2000, lot 35
Ex collection Tambaran Gallery, New York
Ex private collection Paris
Published: Art Tribal, spring 2007, #16, p. 29
Gabon
Metal and wood
Early 20th century
Height: 23 ½ in. (60 cm)
Collected before 1929 by M. Lagarde, French colonial administrator
Ex Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, June 1982, lot 64
Ex collection Loed Van Bussel, Amsterdam
Ex collection Jean-Pierre Jernander, Brussels
Yale University Art Gallery GvR Archive #0025218
Published: PAD - Paris Tribal 2016
Gabon
Carved wood, pigments and fibers
Early 20th century
Height: 15 ¾ in (40 cm)
Field-collected in 1960
Ex collection Dr. Jean-Claude Andrault
Ex private collection
Yale University Art Gallery GvR Archive 0025512
Published: PAD Paris - Paris Tribal, 2016
Gabon
Mahongwe Reliquary Guardian Figure
Carved wood, copper
H: 21 ¼ in. – 54 cm
Early 20th century
Ex collection Charles Ratton, Paris before WW2
Ex collection Madeleine Rousseau, Paris
Ex collection Arman, New York
Ex collection André Schoeller, Paris
Ex collection Merton Simpson, New York
Published: Le Musée Vivant #36-37
November 1948, fig. 9, p. 16.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Carved wood and kaolin
Early 20th century
Height: 9 ¾ in. (25 cm)
Ex collection John Dintenfass, New York
Ex collection Jo de Buck, Brussels
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Southern / Central Eki, Southwest Songye region
Carved wood
Late 19th century
Height: 5 in. (12.5 cm)
Ex collection Joseph Herman, London
Ex collection John Ditenfass, Paris/New York
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Boanga power figure
Carved wood, nails, metal and fibers
Height: 12 ½ in. (16.5 cm)
Presumably collected in situ by Georges Van Halle between 1940-1945
Ex collection Georges Van Halle, Luxembourg
Ex collection Merton D. Simpson, New York
Ex collection Allan Stone, New York
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Boanga (Nganga) Power Figure
Lusamba Area, Batempa group, Northwest of Songye Region
Carved wood, nails, teeth and shells
Late 19th century
Height: 14 ½ in. (37 cm)
Provenance:
Collected in Luluabourg, Belgian Congo, 1930s
Ex collection Karel Plasmans, Belgium, 1965-1966
Ex collection Marc Leo Felix, Brussels (#FC4314)
Ex collection Gallery Fred Jahn, Munich, circa 1985
Ex collection Bareiss, Greenwich/Salach, Neumeister Sale, Munich, Collection Walter Bareiss, Nov. 13, 2008. Lot 1244, ill.
Ex collection Lucien Van de Velde, Antwerp
Ex Pace Gallery, New York (# 54-3768)
Yale-GVR Registration No. 0033763
Exhibition
Kilengi: African Art from the Bareiss Family Collection, Hannover, Vienne, Munich, Iowa City, Purchase NY, 1997-2000. Cat. 110
Publications
Jean Willy Mestach. “Etudes Songye: formes et symbolique, essai d’analyse“. Munich: Gallery Jahn, 1985. pp. 128-129, fig. 37
Christopher D. Roy. Kilengi: African Art from the Bareiss Family Collection. Hannover, Seattle: Kestner Gesellschaft, University of Washington Press, 1999. pp. 190-191, cat. 110
François Neyt. La Redoutable Statuaire Songye d’Afrique Centrale. Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2004. p. 151, fig. 117
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yanda statuette
Carved wood and beads
Early 20th century
Height: 6 in. (15 cm)
Field-collected by the Croisiers Fathers, Vicariat de Bondo, between 1925 and 1940
Published: “Yanda-Beelden en Mani-Sekte bij de Azande (Centraal-Afrika)”
in Annales du Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, n° 4,
Herman Burssens, 1962, pl. XXXIV, n°340
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lukwakongo mask
Carved wood, pigments (kaolin) and fiber
Early 20th century
Height: 7 ½ in. (18 in. with beard)
Ex collection Michel Boulanger, Liège
Published: Pad London, 2014
