Mother with child
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
sold
EUR 5,200
Provenance
Old American CollectionStewart J. Warkow, New York, USA
Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Size
H: 43 cm
H: 16.9 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, disproportionate in size: the head of the sitting female overlarge/the head of the superimposed figure tiny in contrast, reminding of the head of a notable (headdress, inflated cheeks), female sexual characteristics especially accentuated, slightly dam., vertical crack (face of the female) spread with mass, rep. (breakages: right forearm/left thigh/wrist), base
Publications
AHDRC: 0150566