An Agni terracotta head, Krinjabo Region, Ivory Coast

with a ringed neck, the flat, protruding eyes framed by raised scarification and wearing a circular headdress; varied grey and encrusted surface.

Collected in situ by Marcel Lheureux, 1920s
Helena Rubinstein, Paris and New York
Parke-Bernet Galleries, The Helena Rubinstein Collection, New York, April 21, 1966, lot 147
Acquired at the above auction

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, African Art in Westchester from Private Collections, April 24 – June 6, 1971
The Center for African Art, New York, Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World, February 14 – August 12, 1990
The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World, September 16 - November 11, 1990

The Hudson River Museum, African Art in Westchester from Private Collections, Yonkers, 1971, cat. 110 (unillustrated)
Jean Borgatti and Richard Brilliant, Likeness and Beyond: Portraits from Africa and the World, New York, 1990, p. 112, cat. 37

Stable condition overall. Restoration at the headdress and back, left side of the head. Fragile due to nature of the material.
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