New Objects - April 2024
The link to enter the book giveaway is at the bottom of this page.
We Mask
Ngwo Igbo Mask (SOLD)
Luba Leopard Mask
Igbo Ogbodo Enyi
Asante Maternity Goldweight
Asante Female Figure
Ngombe Tip-Stool
Bwa Stool
Baule Figure
Asante Akua'ba (SOLD)
Below is a new section of my website which consists of objects made in culture but made to be sold to outsiders.
I’m adding something new to my website which is a section that contains objects that were made by the culture that would normally make them, but are objects that, in my opinion, were made to be sold to outsiders so they show no real signs of use, but they aren’t artificially aged and don’t have manipulated patinas . Often times these objects are made by the same craftsmen/artists that would make objects for use within the culture. Sometimes the objects are visually very similar to ones made for use, but in some cases like the group of Lulua figures it gives the artist a freedom to show off and express their skills and craft objects that are unique.
Dan mask
Lulua figures
Book Giveaway!
Each month I add new objects to my website I am planning to do a book giveaway as I have a large group of great books that I have duplicates of in my African art library.
The book for this month’s giveaway is:
"Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” by Kate Ezra
Language : English
Paperback : 330 pages
”For more than 500 years, the West African kingdom of Benin has produced brass, ivory, wood and terracotta sculpture prized for its naturalism, beauty and technical sophistication. This sumptuous catalogue of an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduces mysterious brass heads of monarchs and queen mothers, palace plaques teeming with relief figures, regal roosters atop ancestral altars, carved ivory tusks and pyramid-shaped bells. Ezra, an associate curator of the museum, makes it clear in her informative text that this art is intimately linked to rituals of divine kingship and religion, as can be seen in complex altar tableaux depicting the king surrounded by courtiers, chiefs and attendants, and in cylindrical wood altars dedicated to the human hand, which is worshipped in the Benin religion. The book also surveys the intricate, luminous ivory sculpture of Owo, a nearby Yoruba kingdom from which Benin's reigning dynasty traces its origins.”
I will do a random drawing for the book on Friday April 12th and notify the winner then.
