Sword. . Curved blade, with 15 cm rib, widening at the tip, which is cut. The handle has a brass wire winding and ends with a double-sided head.
(Victor Bandeira, one of the most important ‘suppliers’ of the Museum. Between the 60thand the 90th, of the XX century, intermittently, Victor Bandeira made several trips to different continents in order to bring/buy objects from specific cultures that were less represented in the museum’s collection.
Victor Bandeira was a art dealer at the time the team that founded the museum met him when he made an exhibition with is African art collection, in the 60th .
Information from the MET websitenotes https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/leonard-lauder-research-center/research/index-of-cubist-art-collectors/epstein Epstein, Jacob
New York, 1880–London, 1959
Jacob Epstein was a pivotal member of the London avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century. As a collector, he increased the visibility of Indigenous arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.
Born to parents of Eastern European Jewish descent, Epstein studied painting and sculpture in New York and Paris before relocating permanently to London in 1905. (...) While in London, Epstein cultivated an interest in ancient Egyptian and Assyrian art, spurred by his visits to the British Museum. While studying in Paris, Epstein expanded his interest to the arts of Africa and Oceania, which he saw in the collections of artists in Montmartre, the dealers Joseph Brummer and Paul Guillaume, and at the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro. He became a devoted collector during the interwar period, known for his reckless bidding at auctions facilitated by such Parisian dealers as Ernest Ascher, Louis Carré, and Charles Ratton. (...)His collection of nearly 350 African and Oceanic artworks was sold at auction in 1960 by the Arts Council of Great Britain following his death.
Contributed by Hilary Whitham Sánchez, December 2019
África: nas vésperas do mundo moderno; Lisboa, Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, Lisboa, 1991
Escultura Africana no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar, Lisboa, Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, Lisboa, 1968
Escultura Africana em Portugal, Lisboa, Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical, Museu de Etnologia, Lisboa, 1985
Escultura Africana, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisboa, 1985