Standing male figure · Cameroon, Kaka · ID: 3042391
sold
EUR 9,000
Provenance
Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, SwitzerlandChristie’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
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. 85AHDRC: 0008577
Exhibition
Afrika. Maske und Skulptur, Historisches Museum Olten, 26 August-15 October 1989