Provenance

5 events

Production

1504 (approximate) to 1550 (approximate)

The object was produced by Unknown member(s) of the Igun-Ẹrọnmwọn guild in Benin City.

Looted

February 22, 1897 (day approximate) to June 1899 (year approximate)

The object was looted by Unknown member of the British colonial military campaign on Benin - February 1897 from Benin Kingdom.

Unknown

1930 (approximate) to 1937

The object is known to have come into contact with Charles Alfred Marius Ratton, later in Paris.

Exhibition

March 18, 1935 to May 19, 1935

The object was exhibited by Charles Alfred Marius Ratton at New York City.

Purchase

1937

The object was purchased by the Museum de Fundatie from Charles Alfred Marius Ratton through Dirk Hannema from Amsterdam to Zwolle.

Institution data

Museum de Fundatie

Transferred directly by the institution

Last updated: 2025-04-23

Language: english

Institution field	Value
Object no object id	0000000557
Object name	design
Maker	unknown (Edo people, Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria)
Title	Relief (Catfish)
Date	1500 to 1699
Technique	cast bronze
Provenance research	Before 1932 : ???? 1932 : Exhibition in Paris – Exposition de bronzes et ivoires du royaume de Bénin, 15 juin–15 juillet 1932 at Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Musée d’Ethnographie Palais du Trocadéro, Paris 1935 : Exhibition in New York – Exhibition African redacted Art (Mar 18–May 19, 1935) at MoMA. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mr. Janes Johmson Sweeney of New York is returning on the Europe Sunday, December 23, after two months spent in England, France, Germany and Belgium collecting works of primitive African Art for the Exhibition of African Tribal Art to be held at The Museum of Modern tort in the Spring. Mr. Sweeney is a student and critic of modern art, which has in several of its phases been much influenced by primitive African Art. He is the author of “Plastic Redirections in 20th Century Painting” and of articles published in American and European periodicals. He will direct the Exhibition of African Tribal Art for the Museum 1937 : Exhibition in Amsterdam – 50 pieces from Charles Ratton’s collection are shown by Carle van Lier; Acquisition by Dirk Hannema 2005 : Exhibition – Shown alongside the international art collection of private collector Willem Hogervorst from Sept. 8 to Nov. 10. A publication was issued in connection with that presentation: Favoriten van Museum de Fundatie After 2005 : Displayed in a permanent exhibition of the collection in Kasteel het Nijenhuis in Heino, second location of the museum

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