Male Shrine Figure

Place CreatedIlobu, Nigeria, Africa

CultureYoruba

Date20th Century

MediumWood, pigment

Credit LineGift of Charles S. Ackerman and Joanne McGill-Ackerman

Dimensions28 in. (71.1 cm)

Object number2017.032.128

Exhibition HistoryHomage to Nigeria, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, October 9, 1981 - April 1, 1982
Male and Female: the Couple in African Sculpture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, March 23 - October 2, 1983
Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, October 25, 1989 - September 3, 1990
MCCM Permanent Collection Installation, March 29, 2013 - December 1, 2014
Published ReferencesHerbert M. Cole, Icons: Ideals and Power in the Art of Africa (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 73, figure 78.
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy I. Nooter, African Art in American Collections: Survey 1989 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), 237, figure 607.
National Museum of African Art, Calendar of Exhibitions and Programs, Winter 1990.
George Chemeche, The Horse Rider in African Art (Woodbridge: Antoque Collectors Club, 2011), 132.

ProvenanceEx coll. Merton Simpson (1928-2013), New York, New York. Ex coll. Nancy (1931-2020) and Richard (1929-2018) Bloch, Rancho Santa Fe, California, acquired from Simpson, August 12, 1977. Ex coll. Charles S. Ackerman (1933-2017), Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from Sotheby's New York, May 11, 2012, lot 127.

Status

Not on view

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