Standing male figure · Cameroon, Kaka · ID: 3042391

Name: Standing male figure
SKU: 3042391
Price: 9000 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 9,000

Provenance

Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, Switzerland
Christie’s Paris, 7 December 2006, lot 143

Size

H: 32,5 cm

H: 12.8 inch

Description

light wood, blackish brown patina, thick encrusted in some areas, triangular facial plane with deepened mouth and metal tag eyes, big flat hands and bulky feet, fingers and toes especially accentuated, slightly dam., traces of old age and weathering, cracks, paint rubbed off, traces of insect caused damage (back of the head), base

The object Standing male figure with the object ID 3042391 was part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction on May 27, 2017. The object with the lot number 368 achieved a sales price of EUR 9,000 with an asking price of EUR 3,500.

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Publications

Bamert, Arnold, Afrika: Stammeskunst in Urwald und Savanne, Olten, 1980, p.153, ill. 103; Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrika, Maske und Skulptur", Olten 1989, ill. 85

AHDRC: 0008577