Standing female figure "lü me" · Liberia, Dan, Nuopie, Son (Zon) (ca.1910/20-1985) · ID: 3048949
sold
EUR 1,000
Size
H: 49 cm
H: 19.3 inch
Description
wood, kaolin, metal, baase
Possibly the work of the carver Son from the village of Nuopie. Son, who like his father was the blacksmith of the village, came to carving very late, already beyond the age of fifty, through a visit of the master sculptor Sra (ca. 1885-1955). According to Fischer, Son’s quite extensive oeuvre was likely to have been created in the period from 1945/50 to the late 1970s.
A pair of Sons figures, from the Edmondo Trombetta Collection, was auctioned on 24 October 2020 as lot 117 at Zemanek-Münster (AHDRC 0178705).
Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 142, ill. 182