Half figure "kakudji", around 1930, D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa), Size: H: 14 cm (H: 5.5 inch), ID: 3048337

Half figure "kakudji", around 1930, D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa), Size: H: 14 cm (H: 5.5 inch), ID: 3048337 - 2/5

Half figure "kakudji", around 1930, D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa), Size: H: 14 cm (H: 5.5 inch), ID: 3048337 - 3/5

Half figure "kakudji", around 1930, D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa), Size: H: 14 cm (H: 5.5 inch), ID: 3048337 - 4/5

Half figure "kakudji", around 1930, D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa), Size: H: 14 cm (H: 5.5 inch), ID: 3048337 - 5/5

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Lot 272

Half figure "kakudji", around 1930 · D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa) · ID: 3048337

sold EUR 2,200

Provenance

Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Thomas Olbricht, Essen, Germany (1996)

Size

H: 14 cm

H: 5.5 inch

Description

wood, metal, base

This expressive object, sweating heavily in places, bears the inventory number “FC90 153” by Marc Leo Felix.

He describes the object as a “rare half-figure in the Kakudji genre”…, very cubistic, loaded with symbolic substances". The work has “Luba, Lulua and Kanyok features atop a Kete typological and stylistic foundation”.

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