About the Artwork
Standing Male Figure
no date
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African
Songye
Wood, fiber, and hair
Overall (figure): 54 5/8 × 11 3/4 × 11 1/4 inches (138.7 × 29.8 × 28.6 cm) Including base: 56 1/8 × 13 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (142.6 × 34.3 × 29.8 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, New Endowment Fund, Friends of African and African American Art Fund, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, funds from L. & R. Entwistle and Company, Dennis and Leslie Rogers, Matilda Wilson Fund, Abraham Borman Family Fund, Mary Martin Semmes Fund
1995.69.A
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Provenance
(Tambaran Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1995-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Songye, African, Standing Male Figure, no date, wood, fiber, and hair. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, New Endowment Fund, et al., 1995.69.A.
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