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Lot 368
86th Tribal Art Auction

Standing male figure

Cameroon, Kaka
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

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

Exhibition

Afrika. Maske und Skulptur, Historisches Museum Olten, 26 August-15 October 1989
Africa
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