from 23.03.1944, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (purchase); until 23.03.1944, Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895-1956) (consignment); 1897 - 1917, Robert Allman (1854-1917) (inherited); 1917 - 26.11.1931 , Allman Allman, Rathmines, Dublin (inheritance); 26. 11.1931 - 1934, Charles Ratton (11.03.1897-21.07.986), France, Paris (purchase); 26.11.1931, Auctioneers Foster & Foster, London (place) (commission); probably 1934 - 1944, Louis Carré (17. 12.1897 - 11.09.1977), Paris (location) (purchase); 15.06.1932 - 15.07.1932, Musée d'ethnographie-Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris (location), exhibition "Exposition de Bronzes et Ivoires du Royaume de Bénin" in Palais du Trocadéro (loan); 18.03.1935 - 19.05.1935, Museum of Modern Art, New York, exhibition "African Art" (loan)
Permanent exhibition RJM; The Konvolut 1943/05 runs under Dr. med. Hildebrand Gurlitt, although Gurlitt was probably not a previous owner in the true sense, but middleman, the transport of the objects selected in the occupied Paris by museum director Martin Heydrich.
Acquired in Paris in 1944; through Art Cabinet Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg / Dresden