Michael Rhodes African Art

01/31/2020

Two hundred rare objects at the Metropolitan Museum trace the remarkable history and cultural heritage of kingdoms on the rim of the Sahara.

12/12/2018

African Art Books For Sale.

12/02/2018

Rhodes African Art Dec. 2018 Recent Acquisitions -

11/27/2018

Kuba Cosmetic Box, D.R. Congo, 13-3/4 in. / 35 cm.
Provenance: Irwin & Cecile Smiley, NYC
Herbert Baker, L.A.

11/25/2018

Horned 'Kayamba' Mask
Lega, D.R.Congo
Provenance: Tony Patano, Chicago
Bud Holland, Chicago
14-1/4 in. / 36.5 cm.

10/22/2018

520 African objects from the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

  Spoon Lega peoples Democratic Republic of the Congo Horn? Bone? H: 21.80 cm, W: 6 cm, D: 1.50 cm. Fowler Museum at UCLA. Museum Purchase. 378.106.

10/22/2018

The collection of the arts of Africa reflects the continent’s great cultural and geographic diversity and deep, complex history through over 500 works of art from the 11th through the 20th century. With strengths in wood carvings from West and Central Africa, the collection encompasses beadwork, masks and sculptures, costume and jewelry, decorative arts, textiles, and ceramic. Among the individual highlights are a pair of headdresses from Mali, a carved tusk from the Benin Kingdom, a veranda post carved by Yoruba artist Olowe of Ise, Fang and Kota reliquaries, and a Kota crest mask. Ranging from bold abstraction to carefully detailed naturalism, the works in the collection attest to the creativity and aesthetic sensibilities of traditional African artists and their patrons and reveal the central role art has played, and continues to play, in the lives of many Africans.

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10/22/2018

Bamana, Chiwara, Mali: 19-1/4 in./49 cm.

10/22/2018

https://artbma.org/exhibitions/kuba-fabric

This exhibition of dazzling Kuba textiles presented in the BMA’s Cone Collection galleries reveals how a central African kingdom independently developed a form of modernist abstraction in the 20th century. The Kuba kingdom, on the southern edge of the Congolese Rainforest in central Africa, develo...

09/21/2018

Baule Portrait Mask, Ivory Coast - 14-1/4 in./36 cm.