Dévoilée / Unveiled : New perspective on Keaka Statuary Bruno Claessens - Duende Art Projects
For the upcoming Parcours des mondes, Bruno Claessens - Duende Art Projects will present a first-ever exhibition on the art known as Keaka.
ALTAR FIGURE
Anonymous Keaka artist
Nigeria - Cameroon
Height : 80 cm
Provenance :
Armand Arman, Vence, France/New York, USA, 1980
Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, June 19/20, 1980. Lot 273
Max Itzikovitz, Paris, France
Collection Armand Arman, Vence, France
Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert Collection, Paris
Christie's, Paris, June 27, 2018. Lot 85
Private collection, Belgium, 2018
Publications :
Segy (Ladislas), Masks of Black Africa, New York: Dover, 1976: #192
Tosatto (Guy), L'Art au futur antérieur. Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, un autre regard, Musée de Grenoble, 2004, #30
Paudrat (Jean-Louis) et al, Fragments du Vivant. Sculptures Africaines dans la collection Durand-Dessert, Milan, 2008, p. 246
Exhibitions :
L'Art au futur antérieur. Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, un autre regard, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, July 10-October 4, 2004
Fragments du Vivant. African Sculptures in the Durand-Dessert Collection, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France, September 10-24, 2008
© Valentin Claivarolles
ALTAR FIGURE
Anonymous Keaka artist
Nigeria - Cameroon
Height : 75 cm
Provenance :
Yves Develon, Paris, France
Saint-Géry, France
Olivier Castellano, Paris, France, 2019
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
Private collection, Brussels, Belgium
Publications :
Harter (Pierre), “Keaka, Kaka & ‘Kaka’” in: Tribal Art Magazine, September 1994, fig. 5
Lebas (Alain), Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections, Milan, 2012, p. 259, 287, #188
Dartevelle (Valérie) & Plisnier (Valentine), Pierre Dartevelle et les Arts Premiers. Memory and Continuity, Vol. II. Milan, 2021, p. 96, fig.121
Exhibitions :
Québec, Canada, Arts du Nigeria dans les collections privées françaises, Musée de La Civilisation, October 24 2012 - April 21 2013
© Valentin Clavairolles
Discover Bruno Claessens - Duende Art Projects at 4, rue des Beaux-Arts, during Parcours des Mondes.
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