LDD-170955

A Kuba Lele Cup

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Provenance

Sales Results

Lot 17, Sotheby's, Paris — Jun 12, 2012
Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
Estimate: EUR 50,000–70,000
Sold: EUR 780,750
USD 975,285
Lot 26, Christie's, Paris — Oct 30, 2019
Splendors - Chefs-d'oeuvre d'Afrique, d'Amérique du Nord et d'Océanie
Estimate: EUR 300,000–500,000
Unsold
Lot 17, Sotheby's, Paris — Jun 8, 2022
Splendeurs : Chefs-d’oeuvre des Arts d’Afrique
Estimate: EUR 150,000–250,000
Unsold
Lot 54, Sotheby's, New York — Jun 18, 2026
Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Estimate: USD 50,000–70,000
Sold: USD 140,800
USD 140,800

Publications

  • Adolphe Basler, L’Art chez les peuples primitifs, Paris, 1929, n.p., pl. 46a (illustrated)

  • Pierre Matisse, ed., African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection [exhibition checklist], New York, 1935, n.p., probably cat. no. 31 (listed)

  • [Unsigned], “African Art Captures New York”, Vanity Fair, Vol. 44, No. 4, June, 1935, p. 38 (illustrated)

  • John D. Graham, ed., Exhibition of Sculptures of Old African Civilizations, New York, 1936, p. 13, cat. no. 84 (listed)

  • Herbert J. Spinden, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, New York, 1937, n.p., cat. no. 43 (listed)

  • Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections: Survey, 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 431, cat. no. 1110 (illustrated)

  • Maureen Murphy, De l’imaginaire au musée. Les arts d’Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931-2006), Dijon, 2009, p. 156, fig. 26 (archival photograph of the 1933 exhibition chez Louis Carré)

  • Philippe Dagen and Maureen Murphy, eds., Charles Ratton. L’invention des arts « primitifs », Paris, 2013, p. 83, fig. 54 (archival photograph of the 1933 exhibition chez Louis Carré)

Exhibitions

  • Chez Louis Carré, Villa Guibert, Paris, Sculptures et objets. Afrique noire - Amérique ancienne - Mélanésie - Polynésie, July 5 - 20, 1933

  • Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection, March 30 - April 20, 1935

  • Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Exhibition of Sculptures of Old African Civilizations, January 4 - January 22, 1936

  • The Brooklyn Museum, New York, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, March 20 - April 25, 1937