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Lime spatula, 19th–early 20th century
Ebony, traces of lime
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.303

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Harry Beasely Collection, West Abby, Kent." (Catalog #414, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 153.) EXHIBITIONS: 1984 - Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, "Primitivism in 20th Century Art." PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "The handle of this spatula is carved with an animal that I believe is a flying fox. William Rubin notes its resemblance to Max Ernst sculptures in his Museum of Modern Art show of 1984. There is a similar spatula in the Philippe Bourgoin Collection, Paris, and another in the S.G. Moriarty Collection at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. A spatula with an interesting variation on this theme recently entered our collection." (Catalog #414, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 153.) 1984 - Rubin, 1984: 544. 1930 - Chauvet, 1930, fig. 225.

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