Colección de esculturas africanas Vicente Huidobro
By: Carlos Montoya-Aguilar
Contributors: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile); Museo de Historia Natural (Chile)
Publisher: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Museo de Historia Natural
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Santiago, Chile
Language: spa
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: African Figure sculpture; Private collections; Exhibitions; African Sculpture; Art collections; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile); Museo de Historia Natural (Chile)
Description: Exhibition of the collection of 30 sub-Saharan African sculptures (29 figures and one mask) collected by poet Vicente Huidiboro during the first decades of the 20th century and at present part of the holdings of the MNBA and the National Museum of History in Chile. This book-catalogue is the resulting work by Dr Montoya Aguilar after a 10-year research of the collection of metal and wood carved sculptures, mostly created in the former French colonies in Africa, from the Ivory Coast to Congo.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75).