Standing female figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Agni (Anyi) Ndényé (Lagoon people) · ID: 3051921
Harold (1908-1993) & Florence Rome (1910-1987), New York, USA
Sotheby’s New York, 15 November 1988, lot 176 (two statuettes)
Sotheby’s New York, 6 May 1994, lot 77
Billy Wilder (1906-2002), Los Angeles, USA
Christie’s Amsterdam, 12 September 2002, lot 147
French Private Collection
Liladam Enchères, L’Isle Adam, 26 February 2017, lot 191
Description
wood, inventory no. “A668” handwritten on figure and base, metal base, labelled “248”
The AHDRC contains a whole series of female figures that can be formally assigned to this canon of figures. Compare, for example, AHDRC 0070969, a figure collected before 1920, or AHDRC 0070962, all of which show stocky bodies with strikingly short arms and legs, while their heads sit on long necks and are crowned by high palmette-like hairstyles.
The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3051921 was last part of the auction Auction 104 at April 12, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 273 achieved a sales price of EUR 4,000.
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Publications
AHDRC: 0070924