Standing female figure · Nigeria, Mama - Montol · ID: 3033367
sold
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, SwitzerlandHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1989)
Size
H: 27 cm
H: 10.6 inch
Description
greyish brown patina, traces of camwood powder, voluminous forms: broad shoulders with massive arms, bulging hunchback, the head extremely flat, with incised facial features, expressive effect, sightly dam., cracks, minor missing parts (feet), on metal plate;
the Mama became especially known for their highly abstract antelope and buffalo masks. Figures are rather rare !
Comparing literature
Neyt, Francois, Nigerian Primitivism, Brüssel o.J., fig. II