Standing figure · D. R. Congo, Suku · ID: 3040345
Oskar Schimmer, Erlangen, Germany (2005)
Description
wood, blackish brown shiny patina/matt greyish brown patina, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, base;
partially closed eyes are typical in this imagery that depicts elders in their role of mediating misfortune, sickness and death in the past as in the present. The magical loading originally attached to the body has been lost.
The object Standing figure with the object ID 3040345 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 471 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.
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Comparing literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, ill. 218