painted wood
40 x 15.2 x 20 cm (15 3/4 x 6 x 7 7/8 in.)

PROVENANCE
Collection of the prominent African Art Collector Mikhail Zvyagin

Many objects from Zvyagin`s collection have been exhibited at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Museum exhibition in Moscow, "Art of Tropical Africa from the Collection of M.L. and  L.M. Zvyagin", held in 2011 (see http://www.arts-museum.ru/events/archive/2011/04/africa/index.php?lang=en)

RELATED LITERATURE
Anna Seem, Mikhail Zvyagin, African Art from the Collection of Mikhail and Leonid Zvyagin, St. Petersburg, 2009, with introduction article by Vladimir Arseniev, Senior Research Consultant at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Science, a member of the African Studies Council at the Russian Academy of Science and a member of the French Association of African Scholars.