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Figure (Bioma)

20th century
Object PlacePapuan Gulf, Papua New Guinea
Medium/TechniqueWood, pigment
Dimensions53.34 cm (21 in.)
Credit LineGift of William E. and Bertha L. Teel
Accession number1996.398
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1970, Maurice Bonnefoy (dealer; b. 1920 – d. 1998), Garennes-sur-Eure, France and New York [see note]; June 10, 1988, sold by Bonnefoy to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 1996, partial gift of William and Bertha Teel to the MFA; 2014, acquired fully with the bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Dates: December 18, 1996 and February 26, 2014)

NOTE: He lent this to "Art Océanien" (exh. cat. Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchatel, June 27 - December 31, 1970), p. 84, cat. no. 1479.
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