Male twin figure "ere ibeji" · Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ila Orangun · ID: 3046432
sold
EUR 900
Provenance
Lauritz Sunde, Copenhagen, Denmark (1965/66)Poul Mørk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 5 November 2016, Lot 64
Peter Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Size
H: 29,5 cm
H: 11.6 inch
Description
wood, pigments, redwood/ palmoil paste, glass beads, rep., base
Particularly sympathetic “ibeji” type, from the “master of the smiling face”. An “ibeji” pair of this master was auctioned at Zemanek-Münster on 27 June 2015.
The object Male twin figure “ere ibeji” with the object ID 3046432 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 55 achieved a sales price of EUR 900.
You can find more Figures and other popular object types on our related topic pages. You may also be interested in our page on African art.
Comparing literature
Polo, Fausto, Enzyklopädie der Ibeji, 2008, ill. 548
Publications
AHDRC: 0136097