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Lot 179
102nd Auction

Figure of a policeman

Ghana, Akan, Nana Osei Bonsu of Kumasi (1900-1977)
sold EUR 3,000
Provenance
Royal Property
Timothy Koock (1944-2022), Fredericksburg, Texas, USA
Estate of Timothy Koock
Size
H: 54,7 cm
H: 21.5 inch

Description

wood, paint, rest.

This figure has been published several times, including in a photo from 1976 in the standard work on Ghanaian art by Herbert Cole and Doran Ross (1977, p. 177).

It was part of a “ntan” ensemble of figures carved by Osei Bonsu in 1933. Another figure from this ensemble, depicting a colonial official, was auctioned on 11 November 2023 as lot 238 at Zemanek-Münster (AHDRC 0208220).

Nana Osei Bonsu of Kumasi (1900-1977) was the best known Ashanti artist and court carver to the Asantehene.

Publications

Cole, Herbert M. & Doran H. Ross, The Arts of Ghana, Los Angeles 1977, p. 177; Cole, Herbert M., Maternity, Brussels 2017, p. 220; African Arts, February 1984, Vol. XVII, No 2, p. 31, ill. 4
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