Standing male figure
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88th Tribal Art AuctionStanding male figure
D. R. Congo, Suku
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Cheveau, Brussels, Belgium Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Max Itzikovitz, Paris, France Ruth & Marc Franklin, San Francisco, USA Pace Gallery, New York, USA (Inventory No. 54-2832) Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium |
H: 20.7 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
wood, brown patina, remains of red paint, the face dominated by small slit eyes and voluminous cheeks, delicate coiffure with raised middle ridge, dam., missing parts, traces of insect caused damage and abrasion, cracks, base.
There were possibly paraphernalias added to the figure, which is presumably a magical figure "phuungu". These figures served as containers for protective magical power exercised by the experts against illness, to avenge sorcery and for supernatural assistance in hunting.
Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 230 f., ill. 218
Utotombo - L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Brussels 1988, p. 211, ill. 173
YALE: 0062522