About the Artwork
Head
between 19th and 20th century
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African
Fang
Wood, kaolin, pigment
Overall: 19 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 4 1/2 inches (49.5 × 16.5 × 11.4 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
77.29
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Markings
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Provenance
Ratton, (Paris, France). Helena Rubinstein (Paris, France). Kamer (Paris, France). Arman (Paris, France). (Merton D. Simpson Gallery)
1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Family Art Game," Detroit Free Press (May 20, 1979): p. 25 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 52.
Helena Rubinstein: Beauty is Power. Exh. cat., the Jewish Museum. New York, 2014, p. 34 (ill.).
Joubert, Helene, ed. Hélèna Rubinstein: Madame's Collection. Exh. cat., Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. Paris, 2019, pp. 62-63, (ill. 41).
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Fang, African, Head, between 19th and 20th century, wood, kaolin, pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, 77.29.
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