Marjorie Och, Professor of Art History, UMW, ARTH 315 & 317: Art Museum Studies
The contested sale of African art went ahead. It is not yet known who acquired the Igbo statues above. Professor Chika Okek-Aggulu of Princeton University wrote a letter of protest to Christie’s prior to the June 29 sale of African, Oceanic, and North American art.
A Benin sculpture is facing the auction block.
General information about the sale of this particular object can be found at Christie’s catalogue for this sale of art from Africa, Oceania, and North America.
This article by Erin Thompson gives you some context for the sale on June 29, 2020.
Follow-up June 30: The link to the catalogue does not work and this bronze does not appear among the objects in the sale.
