Zemanek-Münster

Fragment of a female figure

Sierra Leone, Limba
sold EUR 1,600
Provenance
Eddy Prescott, USA
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
Size
H: 31 cm
H: 12.2 inch

Description

wood, encrusted brown patina, head with bulging forehead and prominent eyezone deepened in a horizontal line, surmounted by projecting shock of hair, rising from a long neck carved with rings, incised scarification marks on forehead, breast and back, thighs wrapped with rattan, both shanks missing, slightly dam. (chin), traces of insect caused damage, metal base


Comparing literature

Meneghini, Mario, Collecting African Art in Liberia and Neighboring Countries 1963 - 1989, o.O. 2006, p. 175, ill. 165

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