Dimondstein Tribal Arts

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa)
Height: 40.5 cm / 15.7”

Provenance:
Acquired by Pierre Dartevelle in Kalemié in 1970 from a soldier who had bought it in Baraka
Ex collection Alain Schoffel, Paris, France
Ex collection Albert de Bailliencourt (1908-1994), Paris/Antibes, France
Ex Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, "Arts Primitifs", 8 June 1978. Lot 110
Ex collection Marc and Ruth Franklin, San Francisco, California, USA 1978
Ex private collection, Seattle, WA

Publications:
Gossiaux (Pol-Pierre), "Rechercher sur l'art bembe", in Arts d'Afrique Noire, no.11, 1974: front cover.
Lehuard (Raoul), "Collection Albert de Bailliencourt", in: Arts d'Afrique Noire, no.14, 1975:5
Jacob (Alain), "Statuaire de l'Afrique noire", Paris: C.P.I.P., p.52.
Seligman (Thomas K.) & Kathleen Berrin, "The Bay Area Collects: Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas", San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1982:54, #47
Expo cat.: "Forms and Forces: Dynamics of African Figurative Sculpture", by Berrin (Kathleen) and Tom Seligmann, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1998: #43.

Exhibitions:
San Francisco, CA., USA: "The Bay Area Collects: Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas", M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 3 July-3 October 1982
San Francisco, CA., USA: "Forms and Forces: Dynamics of African Figurative Sculpture", Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1998