Pierre Vérité, Paris; [1] By descent to his son Claude Vérité, Paris, 1992; [Galerie Monbrison, Paris, 2003]; [2] Sold to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2003.[1] According to Alain de Monbrison, Pierre Vérité (1900-1992) "was a very important art dealer from the beginning of the 1925's and a French collector as important as Charles Ratton or René Rasmussen... his collection was very certainly one of the most important in France." His son Claude stated that he believes the sculpture was acquired between 1955 and the early 1960s and that he "remembered the statue at home during all his childhood," correspondence in curatorial file, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[2] Sale of this object marked the first time Claude Vérité sold a work from his father's collection since acquiring it ten years prior, as per correspondence in curatorial file.

Paris, Musée Dapper, October 26,1994–March 13, 1995. “Dogon."

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