Coupe Kuba Lele
République démocratique du Congo
Adolphe Basler, L’Art chez les peuples primitifs, Paris, 1929, n.p., pl. 46a (illustrated)
Pierre Matisse, ed., African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection [exhibition checklist], New York, 1935, n.p., probably cat. no. 31 (listed)
[Unsigned], “African Art Captures New York”, Vanity Fair, Vol. 44, No. 4, June, 1935, p. 38 (illustrated)
John D. Graham, ed., Exhibition of Sculptures of Old African Civilizations, New York, 1936, p. 13, cat. no. 84 (listed)
Herbert J. Spinden, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, New York, 1937, n.p., cat. no. 43 (listed)
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections: Survey, 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 431, cat. no. 1110 (illustrated)
Maureen Murphy, De l’imaginaire au musée. Les arts d’Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931-2006), Dijon, 2009, p. 156, fig. 26 (archival photograph of the 1933 exhibition chez Louis Carré)
Philippe Dagen and Maureen Murphy, eds., Charles Ratton. L’invention des arts « primitifs », Paris, 2013, p. 83, fig. 54 (archival photograph of the 1933 exhibition chez Louis Carré)
Chez Louis Carré, Villa Guibert, Paris, Sculptures et objets. Afrique noire - Amérique ancienne - Mélanésie - Polynésie, July 5 - 20, 1933
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection, March 30 - April 20, 1935
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Exhibition of Sculptures of Old African Civilizations, January 4 - January 22, 1936
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield, March 20 - April 25, 1937