THE FRIEDE ARIPA

Male Aripa Statue, Ewa People, Korewori River,
East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, 15th – 17th century
Wood, pigment; height: 174.5 cm
provenance

Philip Goldman, London
William Rubin, New York, acquired from the above
Marcia and John Friede, New York, acquired from the above
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum, gift from the above, 2005
Sold by Heinrich Schweizer to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2011

exhibited

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, JOLIKA Collection galleries, October 2005 – October 2011

published

Tibor Bodrogi, Törszi Müvészete: Ausztrália, Ózeánia, Afrika, Budapest, 1981, vol. 1, no. 64
John A. Friede et al. (eds.), New Guinea Art. Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, San Francisco, 2005, pp. 300 (vol. 1) and 125-126 (vol. 2), cat. 269, and illustrated on back cover of slip case

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