Standing male figure · D. R. Congo, Tabwa / Rungu · ID: 3035816
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
Description
heavy wood, matt middle brown patina, schematized body, paddle-shaped hands clumsy amalgamated with the hips, simplified facial features, the eyes framed by concentrical grooves, slightly dam., missing parts (both feet), rep. (breakage), cracks partly spread with mass (back, head), small traces of insect caused damage (back), abrasion of paint, base;
Tabwa sculpture found its sources in two worlds, Luba to the west and north and Azania to the east and south. From the Luba they borrowed clan ancestor figures, sometimes in pairs, and kept in special shrines. Present figure might well have been the male part of such a couple.
The object Standing male figure with the object ID 3035816 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 205.
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