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Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head "kono" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro / Bété · ID: 3047468

sold EUR 600
Provenance

Thomas L. McNemar (1931-2020), Lexington, Virginia, USA

McNemar came into contact with African art by chance when he was doing research for his doctoral thesis at the British Museum in London. It was here that he met William Fagg, “the man who was to change his life”. From then on, he became intensely involved with African art. In the late 1960s, he ran a gallery in New York and later in San Francisco. He spent twenty years in West Africa and amassed an extensive collection of African art. 150 African sculptures from his collection were donated to the North Dakota Museum of Art (2012-2013).

Size
H: 22,5 cm
H: 8.9 inch

Description

wood, collection no. “4015”, old place of repair, base


The object Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head “kono” with the object ID 3047468 was last part of the auction 96th Auction at April 24, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 191 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.

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