A large brass model of a Portuguese soldier on a horse, Nige...

A large brass model of a Portuguese soldier on a horse, Nigeria, the rider, holding a polearm is a separate piece, 53.5cm high, 42cm long Provenance: H. Kenneth Palmer collection Connecticut & New York, collected before 1980, no. 273 on the 1975 inventory undertaken by Irwin Hersey Associates. The collection was appraised several times by Irwin Hersey associates, New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Irwin Hersey was an expert on primitive art and editor and publisher of the monthly Primitive Art newsletter which he founded in September 1978. He was an author of African tribal art, catalogue of the Fred and Rita Richmond collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and he also wrote primitive art of Indonesia from 1971 to 1977 he was the American editor of the quarterly French journal Arts d'Afrique Noire.

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