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YVA-038000

A Nuna Spoon

Burkina Faso

22.0 cm (8.7 in)

Provenance

Auction results

Lot 49, Sotheby's, Paris — Jun 15, 2011
Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
Estimate: EUR 7,000 - 10,000
Sold: EUR 58,350
USD 82,900
Lot 26, Native, Brussels — May 27, 2025
A Princely Collection
Estimate: EUR 10,000 - 15,000
Sold: EUR 11,700
USD 13,332

Publications

  • Irwin Hersey, Art from the Sahel: an exhibition of traditional art and crafts from the Sahelian states of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta, New York, African-American Institute, 1974, p.4, n° F-60

  • T. Grace and Thomas Wheelock, Art from Upper Volta, Fort Collins, 1975, p.7, n° 48

  • Norman Skougstad, Traditional Sculpture from Upper Volta, New York, The African-American Institute, 1978, p.37, cat. 35

  • Warren M. Robbins, Traditional Sculpture from Upper Volta, 1979, p.10, n° 84

  • Barna, "Collecting: Gathering Force" in House and Garden, vol. 158, n°4, April 1986, p.104

  • Christopher Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Alain et Françoise Chaffin, éditeurs, Meudon, 1987, p. 67, cat.35

  • Christopher Roy and Thomas Wheelock, Land of Flying Masks: Art & Culture in Burkina Faso, the Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel Verlag, Munich – Berlin – London – New York, 2007, cat.464 (ill.)

Exhibitions

  • New York, The African-American Institute, Art from the Sahel: an exhibition of traditional art and crafts from the Sahelian states of Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta, February - April 1974

  • Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Art from Upper Volta, 1975

  • New York, The African-American Institute, Traditional Sculpture from Upper Volta, 24 October 1978 - 24 March 1979

  • Washington D.C., The Museum of African Art, Traditional Sculpture from Upper Volta, Summer 1979