- 1980s
Unidentified merchant, Foumban, Cameroon
1980s - 2021
Galerie Afrique (Alain Dufour) and Galerie Kanem (Frantz Dufour), Paris, France, purchased from merchant in Foumban, Cameroon [1]
2021 - 2022
Duncan Clarke (Adire African Textiles), London, United Kingdom, purchased from Galerie Kanem [2]
2022 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Duncan Clarke [3]
Notes:
[1] In an email dated July 22, 2022 to Nichole Bridges, Frantz Dufour stated his father, Alain Dufour of Galerie Afrique, purchased the robe in the 1980s from a merchant in Foumban, Cameroon [email in SLAM document files].
[2] In an email dated April 19, 2022 to Nichole Bridges, Duncan Clarke stated "the tunic I bought late last year [2021] from a Paris gallery called Galerie Kanem" [email in SLAM document files].
[3] Invoice. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, August 22, 2022.
