Cover of the exhibition catalog “Picasso – Negerplastik”
at Otto Feldman’s Neue Galerie, Berlin, December 1913.
Spirit Figure (asye usu)
Baule people, 19th century; present-day Ivory Coast
Height: 47.3 cm
Provenance
– Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), Paris, ca. 1910
– Paul Guillaume (1891-1934), Paris, 1920s
– Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris
– Frederick Rhodes Pleasants (1906-1976), New York
– Kelley Rollings, Tucson
– Hélène and Philippe Leloup, Paris, acquired from
the above
– Private Collection, acquired from the above in 1989
– By descent through the family
Published & Exhibited
– Neue Galerie (Otto Feldmann), Berlin, Picasso –
Negerplastik, December 1913; additional venue:
Kunstsausstellung Emil Richter, Dresden, January 1914;
Neue Galerie (ed.), Picasso – Negerplastik, Berlin, 1913,
cover; Kunstsausstellung Emil Richter (ed.), Picasso
– Negerplastik, Dresden, 1914, cover; Carl Einstein,
Negerplastik, Leipzig, 1915, pls. 54-56; Carl Einstein,
Negerplastik, Munich, 1920 (re-edition), pls. 54-56; Carl
Einstein, Negerplastik, Berlin, 1992, pp. 84-86, pls. 54-56;
Carl Einstein, Negro Sculpture, Amsterdam, 2016,
pls. 54-56
– Jacques Maquet, Afrique. Les civilisations noires, Paris,
1962, p. 108
– The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Primitivism
in Twentieth Century Art – Affinity of the Tribal and
the Modern, September 19, 1984 – January 15, 1985;
additional venues: The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit,
February 26 – May 19, 1985 and The Dallas Museum of
Art, Dallas, June 23 – September 1, 1985; William Rubin
(ed.), “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the
Tribal and the Modern, New York, 1984, vol. 1, p. 223;
William Rubin, Primitivismus in der Kunst des zwanzigsten
Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1984, p. 231, fig. 272; William
Rubin, Le Primitivisme dans l’art du 20e siècle. Les artistes
modernes devant l’art tribal, Paris, 1987, vol. 1, p. 223
– Hélène & Philippe Leloup (adv.), African Arts, vol. XXIII,
no. 2, April 1990, p. 17
– Hélène & Philippe Leloup (adv.), Arts d’Afrique Noire,
no. 73, Spring 1990, p. 12
– Ezio Bassani and Jean-Louis Paudrat, Carl Einstein - La
sculpture nègre, Montréal and Paris, 1998, p. 79, pls. 54-56
– Liliane Meffre (ed.), La escultura negra y otros escritos:
Carl Einstein, Barcelona and Mexico, 2002, pls. 54-56
– The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., Treasures, November 17,
2004 – August 15, 2005; Sharon F. Patton, Treasures,
Washington, D.C., 2004, unpaginated portfolio, “Private
collections”, fol. 52
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