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Pair of Yoruba Female Twin Figures, Yagba, Nigeria
21 November – 5 December 2024, 12:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$8,000 - US$12,000
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Pair of Yoruba Female Twin Figures, Yagba, Nigeria
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Wood, pigments, beads
Heights 8in (20.3cm) and 8 1/4in (20.9cm)
Provenance
Morton Dimondstein (1920-2000), Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver Collection, Los Angeles, acquired from the above circa 1972
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Edwin & Cherie Silver, 13 November 2017, Lot 64
Private Collection, United States
Literature
Drewal, Henry John, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, p. 176, fig. 198
Cameron, Elisabeth L., Isn't S/He a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996, p. 68, fig. 88
Exhibited
The Center for African Art, New York, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, 20 September 1989 - 7 January 1990, and continuing:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 10 February - 1 April 1990;
The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 8 May - 26 August 1990;
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 26 September - 9 December 1990;
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 11 January - 24 March 1991;
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 23 April - 16 June 1991;
The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1 July - 11 October 1991
The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Isn't S/he a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, 17 November 1996 - 16 November 1997, and continuing:
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 14 November 1998 - 17 January 1999
Wood, pigments, beads
Heights 8in (20.3cm) and 8 1/4in (20.9cm)
Provenance
Morton Dimondstein (1920-2000), Los Angeles
Edwin and Cherie Silver Collection, Los Angeles, acquired from the above circa 1972
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Edwin & Cherie Silver, 13 November 2017, Lot 64
Private Collection, United States
Literature
Drewal, Henry John, John Pemberton III, and Rowland Abiodun, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, p. 176, fig. 198
Cameron, Elisabeth L., Isn't S/He a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, Los Angeles, 1996, p. 68, fig. 88
Exhibited
The Center for African Art, New York, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, 20 September 1989 - 7 January 1990, and continuing:
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 10 February - 1 April 1990;
The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 8 May - 26 August 1990;
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 26 September - 9 December 1990;
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, 11 January - 24 March 1991;
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 23 April - 16 June 1991;
The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, 1 July - 11 October 1991
The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Isn't S/he a Doll?: Play and Ritual in African Sculpture, 17 November 1996 - 16 November 1997, and continuing:
Minneapolis Institute of Art, 14 November 1998 - 17 January 1999
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