The Clyman Fang Head
Estimate: $2.5/4 million
Sotheby’s to auction the Clyman Fang Head Sotheby’s will offer for sale The Clyman Fang Head – one of the most important works of African Art ever to appear at auction – in the Contemporary Art Evening Auction to be held in New York the week of 29 June, 2020.]]>
May 29, 2020, source: Sotheby’s
On offer from the The Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman with an estimate of $2.5/4 million, the reliquary statue will be the first work of classical African Art to be presented in any contemporary art evening sale.
During the marquee sale week this June, Sotheby’s will also present African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman in a dedicated auction and a selection of fine art from the collection will be offered across the Contemporary, Impressionist & Modern and American art sales.
Alexander Grogan, Vice President and Head of Sotheby’s African & Oceanic Art Department in New York, said: “The Clyman Fang Head is a legendary and iconic work of art, and we are privileged to showcase a work of its quality and provenance on one the biggest stages in the art world at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale. It is unprecedented to present a work of classical African Art in a contemporary art auction, and our decision to do so celebrates the Clyman’s visionary taste and foresight in pairing African Art with modernist and abstract 20th century art, and highlights the natural aesthetic affinities between these works. The Clyman Fang stands out as an indisputable masterpiece of the Clyman’s collection, and we are excited to share it in a new setting this June.”
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