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May 20, 2001
Evan M. Maurer and Niangi Batulukisi Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo; Selections from the Helmut F. Stern Collection Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 154 pp.; 76 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (0816636559)
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, October 1, 1999-July 2, 2000.

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Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo; Selections from the Helmut F. Stern Collection was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held in 1999 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. All the works came from the Congo. Helmut Stern purchased most of them from Marc Léo Félix, the Belgian connoisseur and African art dealer. The core of the collection, twenty-two out of seventy-one pieces, formerly belonged to the late Belgian artist Joseph...