Bark painting · Papua New Guinea · ID: 3038399
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Norman Hurst, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAB. Posthuma, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Size
H: 105 cm
B: 41,5 cm
H: 41.3 inch
B: 16.3 inch
Description
painted in traditional colours with white, black and red pigment, depicting a spirit being, with the body of a human and the head of a hornbill, collection number in red paint backside: “1963.53”, minor missing parts, cracks, abrasion of paint
The object Bark painting with the object ID 3038399 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 31 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.
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