Figure of a town chief (iyase)
Nigeria, Edo peoples, Udo, Benin Kingdom Provincial Court Style
16th century
Copper alloy
Overall: 19 1/4 x 6 x 5 in. (48.895 x 15.24 x 12.7 cm)
Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., 1994.196.McD
16th century - 1897: Benin court at city of Udo
1897: Taken as war booty during the British Punitive Expedition1950 -1993: Vincent Price Collection (1911-1993), Los Angeles
After 1993: The Estate of Vincent Price, Los Angeles
1994: The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., purchased through L & R Entwhistle & Co Ltd, London from above
Published Referencesbibliography Price, Vincent. I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography. Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Co., 1959: p. 146-147, 151, illus. p. 147.
Fagg, William and Margaret Plass. African Sculpture. London: Studio Vista, 1964, Illustrated p. 142.
Robbins, Warren M. African Art in American Collections: L'Art Africain dans les Collections Americaines. New York and Washington, DC: Praeger, 1966: Illustrated p. 189, p. 155, illus.
Fagg, William, African Sculpture. Washington, D.C.: The International Exhibitions Foundation, 1969 [1070], p., 27, Cat. No. 12.
Dark, Philip J.C. An Illustrated Catalogue of Benin Art. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982, p. 2.1.113, re: X8/24 Figure with raised sword, Udo; p. 2.3.7: "Price, Vincent. Los Angeles, U.S.A., X/24.
Quarcoopone, E. Nii, "Pendant Plaques,” In The Art of Power/ The Power of Art: Studies in Benin Iconography, Ben Amos, Paula and Arnold Rubin, eds. Monograph Series, No. 19. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1983: fig. 72, p. 96, illus.
Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1997, p. 150, illus.
Walker, Roslyn Adele. The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2009, pp. 53, 55; cat. no. 5, pp. 52, 54.