Standing female figure "lü me" ·  Liberia, Dan, Nuopie, Son (Zon) (ca.1910/20-1985) · ID: 3048949

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).

The object Standing female figure “lü me” with the object ID 3048949 was part of the auction 98th Auction on March 26, 2022. The object with the lot number 146 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000 with an asking price of EUR 800.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Afrikanische Meister, Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 2014, p. 142, ill. 182