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Areogun of Osi-Ilorin and Yorùbá

Opon Igede (Container)

1929-1938

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Opon Igede (Container)

1929-1938

Physical Qualities Wood, Overall: 15 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (39.4 × 44.5 cm.)
Credit Line The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number 2022.52
Gert Stoll and Mareidi Singer, Galerie Schwarz – Weiss, Munich and Essen, Germany, early 1960s
Ex collection Ludwig Bretschneider (1909-1987) Munich, Germany, purchased from above, mid 1960s
Ex collection Loed van Bussel (1935-2018) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, purchased from above
Ex Loed van Bussel estate , Amsterdam.

Artist

Areogun of Osi-Ilorin

1879–1953

Nigerian, c. 1880-1954
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Culture

Yorùbá

2000–2000

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Henry van de Velde, Genossenschaft Pan GmbH, and others
Tropon
1897
Henry van de Velde
Tropon
1897