Chez Christie’s à Paris Une figure du Cameroun adjugée à 1 M

AFP  04/12/2009 |

Une figure d’ancêtre royal masculin Bangwa du Cameroun s’est vendue aux enchères à Paris 1.017.000 euros avec les frais, tandis qu’un masque Songye (RD du Congo) a atteint 793.000 euros, a annoncé vendredi la maison Christie’s.

La figure camerounaise “est généralement considérée comme le compagnon de la célèbre Reine Bangwa ayant appartenue à Helena Rubinstein et aujourd’hui dans les collections du

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Image ID: 488163 Yetsang Girl (Southern Cameroons). ([1931])

Image Title:  Yetsang Girl (Southern Cameroons).

Photographer : Bernatzik, Hugo Adolf, 1897-1953 – Author

Specific Material Type : Photomechanical prints

Item/Page/Plate: 33 from the book The dark continent; Africa,: The landscape and the people (Orbis terrarum) ~ Hugo Adolf Bernatzik

Source Description: xv, p., 256 pl. on 128 l. 31 cm.

Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / General Research Division

Catalog Call Number: BKD+ (Bernatzik, H. A. Dark continent, Africa)

Digital ID: 488163

Record ID: 304188

Digital Item Published: 5-5-2005; updated 2-12-2009

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Power Exhibition in Germany :

In many societies power is based on knowledge, experience, merit, and loyalty. Yet power is more Janus-faced than virtually any other phenomenon. The taking of human life in order to seize or retain power is an extreme form of expression which manifests itself most brutally during wartime. Religion has often served power, and relationships based on exchange have stabilised power structures. Indeed, trade and religion have often not only supported the status quo, they have aided and abetted, even embodied, the darker aspects of the ruling forces. Power has also always made use of art, and artists have taken power as their theme – either critically or commissioned by the powerful themselves.

From an Ethnological to a Historic Approach: The Chokwe

Figure of Chibinda Ilunga, Angola, Chokwe, 19th Century; Ethnologisches Museum, SMB. Photo: Claudia Obrocki

The Chowke today live in north-western Angola and in the south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.The end of the slave trade in the first half of the 19th century, which had connected Africa, Europe, and America in a tight net of trade for several centuries, entailed a deep economic cut for the peoples living on the shores of Western Africa. Many communities of huntersand of refugees from the slave hunts came to wealth and political power through trade with products like Ivory and bees wax. Only in this process their identity as Chokwe emerged. Their political and economic expansion soon threatened long-established political organisations like the neighbouring kingdom of the Lunda. The numerous competing and trading leaders also bolstered their claim to power by promoting artistic expression. Chokwe artists integrated stylistic elements of the neighbouring African peoples and the Europeans into their own art and thus developed one of the most impressive styles of art of the African continent.

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Nkisi Power Figure- AMAM African Sculpture Exhibition

The dynamic sculptural works exhibited here ––from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, and other African countries––were chosen from a private collection to supplement the AMAM’s permanent collection of African art, which has a strong emphasis on West African art of the Yoruba peoples.

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Bamun (ex. Josef Herman )Bangwa royal miniature (ex. J. Herman ) Phemba-Yombe top of a staff (ex-Theo Joyal- Michael Rhodes/NYC) Baule (ex. J. Herman ) Songye (ex. J. Herman )

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