Headrest

CultureTwa

Date20th century

MediumWood

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 3 5/8 inches (18.42 × 23.5 × 9.21 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Tranin Family from the collection of Donald H. Tranin

Object number2013.47.61

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

Provenance

Private collection, Belgium, by 1939 [1];

Possibly Jef Vanderstraete (1904-1984), Lasne, Belgium, by 1984 [2];

With Marc Leo Félix, Brussels, Belgium, no. FX9211, by March 1992 [3];

Purchased from Félix by Donald (1927-2007) and Sally (1930-2017) Tranin, no. 114, Kansas City, MO, May 4, 1992;

By descent to their son, Ed Tranin, Leawood, KS, and their daughter, Laura Tranin, Seattle, WA, by 2013;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

NOTES:

[1] According to Marc Leo Félix, in documentation provided at the time of the object’s purchase, NAMA curatorial files, this object “was brought back to Belgium prior to World War II and has since then been in a private collection.” The identity of this collection is currently unknown.

[2] Félix (see note 1) believed this object to be “from the Vanderstraete collection because of the original base.” This is presumably Jef Vanderstraete (1904-1984), a Belgian collector and dealer. According to the African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre database, www.ahdrc.eu, object no. 0012844, Vanderstraete bought his first African objects in the very early 1950s.

[3] Félix’s stock number is written on the underside of the object.

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