Half figure "kakudji", around 1930
D. R. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa)
sold
EUR 2,200
Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, BelgiumMarc 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”.