Head,

1000–400 BCE

John Wise (1901-1981), NY and CT [1]. By 1961, Stanley J. Seeger, Jr. (1930-2011), Class of 1952; May 16, 2014, “Property from the Collection of the Late Stanley J. Seeger” sale, Sotheby’s New York, lot 236, sold to Michael de Havenon, New York [2]; February 23, 2021, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] According to The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. collection: on special exhibition during June 1961 (Princeton: Art Museum Princeton University, 1961), cat. no. 140. In the 2014 Sotheby’s sale of the late Stanley Seeger collection, the lot entry gives the provenance as from the Keith Warner Collection. A handwritten annotation crosses this out and adds “ex-Wise.”
[2] According to Michael de Havenon, personal communication, 2022.

• The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. collection on special exhibition during June 1961, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1961)., no. 125
• Sotheby’s, African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art Including Property from the Krugier and Lasansky Collections (New York: May 16, 2014)
  , lot 236 (illus.)

• The Stanley J. Seeger, Jr. Collection (Princeton University Art Museum, June 1961)