Offered by Galerie des Modernes
Accumulation of 104 Ibeji statuettes in a plexiglass box forming a presentation table
Signed with pen-etcher on the vertical front panel bottom right
Plexiglass height: 44 cm / Total height with wooden base: 53,5 cm
Width: 122.5 cm
Depth: 102 cm
Provenance :
- Mourtala Diop Collection, New York, U.S.A. and Dakar, Senegal
- Jean-Paul Ledeur Collection, Paris
Exhibitions :
- "Collection Mourtala Diop" , Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ifan Museum, Dakar, May 6 to July 17, 1993
- "Quelques impressions d’Afrique", Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Vence, from July 7 to October 31, 1996
- "Africarmania – Arman et l’Afrique", Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Vence, from 1 July to 31 October 2001
- FIAC, Paris, stand of Galerie Beaubourg, 2002
Literature :
- "Parcours d’un mécène. Collection Mourtala Diop", Ed. Sepia, Paris, 1993, reproduced in color, p. 24
- "Quelques impressions d’Afrique" by Pierre Nahon, catalogue of the exhibition of the Galerie Beaubourg, Ed. from The Difference, 1996, described at p. 24 reproduced in color, p. 25
- "Africarmania – Arman et l’Afrique", catalogue of the Galerie Beaubourg exhibition, texts by Arman and P. Nahon, Ed. from La Différence, Paris, 2002, commented by Arman on p. 36 and reproduced in color, p. 37
- Registered in the Archives Arman by Mrs. Denyse Durand-Ruel under n ° 4268