Masterpieces #7-12



Profils et Perspectives • Victor Burhenne & René-François Cotton • De Boeck, 1973

Lega mask, wood and fibers, DRC • Private collection • 18 cm



Lega Culture - Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People • Daniel Biebuyck • University of California Press, 1973

Idimu mask, Lega, Pangi, Kivu, DRC • Ivory • Collected by Daniel Biebuyck in 1952  • Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren • Inv. # RG 55.3.53 • H. 22 cm



Guardian of a Fang reliquary, Gabon • Private collection • H. 60 cm


Raccolta di un Amatore d'Arte Primitiva • Paolo Morigi • Kunstmuseum Bern, 1980



Djenne figure, terracotta, Mali • Musée Barbier-Mueller, Geneva • Inv. # 1004-95 • H. 22,5 cm


Art Ancien du Mali • Giselle Eberhard • Musée Barbier-Mueller, 1983



The Arts of Zaire - Volume 1: Southwestern Zaire • Daniel Biebuyck • University of California Press, 1985

Drummer Figure, Nkanu, Lower Zaïre region/Bandundu, DRC • Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren • Inv. #RG 200 6/5 • H. 71 cm



Art of the Yaka and Suku • Arthur P. Bourgeois • Alain et Françoise Chaffin, éditeurs, 1985

Ndeemba mask (Northern Yaka), wood & fibers, DRC • Private collection • 45 cm