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Mother with child, Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum, Size: H: 43 cm (H: 16.9 inch), ID: 3043645
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Lot 348
88th Tribal Art Auction

Mother with child ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum · ID: 3043645

sold EUR 5,200
Provenance
Old American Collection
Stewart 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

Africa

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