Male pair of twin figures "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Igbuke Style · ID: 3046539
sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Lore Kegel & Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (coll. in situ, 1956)Walter Grasser, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 28,5 cm
H: 11.2 inch
Description
wood, colour pigments, glass beads, cowry shells, collection label, rest.
The twin figures that have become known as “Oyo-Ibeji” are stylistically largely uniform in design. This carving style was shaped by the Igbuke carving family. Other carving families in Oyo adopted this style. Therefore, today it is hardly possible to determine who carved what, as the Oyo carvers did not “sign” their works like some Abeokuta carvers.
Comparing literature
Stoll, Gert & Mareidi, Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 161, ill. 57 Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 360 f.