Object Details
- Chokwe artist
- Description
- Wood chair with leather seat, flared legs, two horizontal back splats, male face with headdress top center, 3D figures carved on chair rails: displayed male figure; displayed female figure; embracing couple; man with blacksmith bellows and forge.
- Provenance
- Helena Rubinstein, -- to 1966, auction
- Paul and Ruth Tishman, New York, 1966 to 1981
- Exhibition History
- Helena Rubinstein: Madame's Collection, Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, November 19, 2019-June 28, 2020
- African Emblems of Status, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 29, 1982-April 3, 1983
- The Stranger Among Us, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., March 24-September 7, 1982
- Published References
- Parke-Bernet. 1966. African and Oceanic Art: The Collection of Helena Rubinstein. Auction catalogue (April 21, 29). New York, 2469, no. 243.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tishman
- Late 19th to mid-20th century
- Object number
- 81-23-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Decorative Arts
- Medium
- Wood, skin, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 60.1 x 29.9 x 39.7 cm (23 11/16 x 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 in.)
- Geography
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Angola
- See more items in
- National Museum of African Art Collection
- National Museum of African Art
- Topic
- male
- female
- couple
- Record ID
- nmafa_81-23-3
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ys770d282d7-a808-405c-8dfb-703e30f1433b
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