Lot: 418

77th tribal art auction

Female pair of figures

Cameroon, Bangwa

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Austrian Private Collection, Vienna H: 28 und 11.6 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, brown patina, traces of black paint, with tapering knees rising from short legs, supporting stocky trunks with short arms, both hands incised, crowned by pear-shaped heads with round cheeks and castanet-eyes, dam., minor missing parts (nose, chin, foot tips), cracks, traces of insect caused damage (backside), rep. (right foot of one of the figures), abrasion, ;
presumaby depicting two pregnant women.


Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, 2008, p. 195