About the Artwork
Stool
between 1850 and 1950
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African
Luba
Wood and metal studs
Overall: 13 1/4 × 11 1/2 × 11 3/8 inches (33.7 × 29.2 × 28.9 cm)
Furniture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art
79.36
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Markings
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Provenance
1974, Alan Brandt. (J. Camp Associates, Ltd.)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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African Masterworks In The Detroit Institute of Arts. Washington and London: The Detroit Institute of Arts and Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, cat. no. 77.
Art Primitif. Sales cat., Hotel Drouot. December 19-20, 1974, lot no. 63.
Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 237 (ill).
Perspectives: Angles on African Art. Center for African Art, New York, 1987.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Luba, African, Stool, between 1850 and 1950, wood and metal studs. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor Clay Ford Fund for African Art, 79.36.
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