Figural group · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3037474
sold
EUR 350
Size
H: 62,5 cm
H: 24.6 inch
Description
light-weighted wood, brown patina, remains of black paint and indigo blue pigment, kaolin, a male figure kneeling in front of a tree, turning his back on the viewer, holding a rifle in his right hand while he is reaching for the tail of an amardillo with the left, while the animal climbs up the tree and sticks its head in a hole in the trunk, the scene is crowned by a slightly vaulted pillow, dam., missing parts (base), rep., several breakages (pillow, left shoulder of the figure, tail of the amardillo), missing part (at the “trunk”) spread with mass, wooden plate