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Female bocio figure
Fon culture (Benin)
Carved ati wewe wood
Formerly Musée de l’Homme Paris now in national collections
Inventory no. 71.1930.21.13.

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Fon boccio (ritual power figure)
Benin
Carved wood coated with sacrificial materials
Reproduced from African Arts Gallery

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Female figure, Fon culture (Benin)
Carved wood
Formerly Musée national des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie
Paris; entered national collections May 11, 1970
Inventory no. 73.1970.3.3.

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Darkytown Rebellion, 2001
Cut paper and wall projection
Mudam Luxembourg Collection
Photo by Andrés Lejona | Mudam Luxembourg

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Darkytown Rebellion, 2001
Cut paper and wall projection
Mudam Luxembourg Collection
Photo by Andrés Lejona | Mudam Luxembourg

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Hector Hyppolite
Poisson A Tete De Femme, C 1947
Oil Painting on Board
47 3/4 x 29 1/4
Photo by The Gallery of Everything

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Hector Hyppolite
General Baubou and the Mambo
Oil on paperboard mounted on wood, by 1948
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution
The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
Photo by Lee Stalsworth

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Cassi Namoda
“Acrobat and Young Harlequin”
Ode to Picasso Rose Period, 2024
Oil and acrylic on cotton poly
Goodman Gallery

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Cassi Namoda
We have become strangers (Fight with a javelin and boron)
An ode to Goya 2020
Oil and acrylic on cotton poly, 60 × 84 inches
Goodman Gallery

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