KOTA-OBAMBA RELIQUARY FIGURE BY THE SEBE RIVER MASTER OF THE SKULL HEAD, GABON

Charles Ratton, Paris

Morris J. Pinto, Paris and New York, acquired from the above

Sotheby's, London, African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art from the Pinto Collection, May 9, 1977, lot 133

Murray Frum, Toronto, acquired at the above auction

Lance and Roberta Entwistle, London, acquired from the above

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above on June 8, 1995

Raoul Lehuard, "Les ventes", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 23, 1977, p. 41

Jacqueline Fry, Vingt-cinq sculptures africaines/Twenty-Five African Sculptures from Canadian Collections, Ottawa, 1978, p. 143, cat. no. 19

National Gallery of Canada, Exhibition Invitation for Vingt-cinq sculptures africaines/Twenty-Five African Sculptures from Canadian Collections, Ottawa, 1978

Arnold Rubin, "Recent Exhibitions: Twenty-Five African Sculptures", African Arts, Vol. XII, No. 3, May 1979, p. 80

Alain Chaffin and Françoise Chaffin, L'art Kota. Les figures de reliquaire, Meudon, 1979, p. 300, cat. no. 184

Louis Perrois, Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, p. 12, fig. 3

William Fagg, African Majesty: from Grassland to Forest. The Barbara and Murray Frum Collection, Toronto, 1981, p. 83, cat. no. 29

Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, L'art africain, Paris, 1988, p. 235, fig. 151

Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Die Kunst des Schwarzen Afrika, Freiburg, 1989, p. 235, fig. 151

Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 337, fig. 875

Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, L'arte in Africa, Milan, 1991, p. 235, fig. 151

Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Art of Africa, New York, 1993, p. 235, fig. 151

Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan, Arte africano, Madrid, 1998, p. 235, fig. 151

Bernard de Grunne, ed., Mains des Maître. À la découverte des sculptures d'Afrique/Masterhands: Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker, Brussels, 2001, front and back cover and p. 152, cat. no. 37

Raoul Lehuard, "Mains des Maître. À la découverte des sculptures d'Afrique", Arts d’Afrique Noire, No. 118, Summer, 2001, p. 40

Bernard de Grunne, "Master Hands: Post Scriptum", Tribal Art Magazine, No. 31, Summer 2003, pp. 90-91, nos. 5-6

Alisa LaGamma, Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p. 231, cat. no. 63

Elena Martínez-Jacquet, ed., "Exhibition Checklist/Œuvres exposées", Tribal Art Magazine. Kota: New Light/Nouveaux éclairages, Special Issue No. 5, 2015, p. 67, fig. 66

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Vingt-cinq sculptures africaines/Twenty-Five African Sculptures from Canadian Collections, September 14 - November 5, 1978

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, African Majesty: from Grassland to Forest. The Barbara and Murray Frum Collection, May 22 - July 12, 1981

Espace Culturel BBL, Brussels, Mains des Maître. À la découverte des sculptures d'Afrique/Masterhands: Afrikaanse beeldhouwers in de kijker, March 22 - June 24, 2001

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary, November 2, 2007 - March 2, 2008

Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art, October 16-2015 - March 19, 2016