Standing male figure · D. R. Congo, Suku · ID: 3043601
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland
Max Itzikovitz, Paris, France
Ruth & Marc Franklin, San Francisco, USA
Pace Gallery, New York, USA (Inventory No. 54-2832)
Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, brown patina, remains of red paint, the face dominated by small slit eyes and voluminous cheeks, delicate coiffure with raised middle ridge, dam., missing parts, traces of insect caused damage and abrasion, cracks, base.
There were possibly paraphernalias added to the figure, which is presumably a magical figure “phuungu”. These figures served as containers for protective magical power exercised by the experts against illness, to avenge sorcery and for supernatural assistance in hunting.
The object Standing male figure with the object ID 3043601 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 463.
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Expertise
Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium
Comparing literature
Bourgeois, Arthur P., Art of the Yaka and Suku, Paris 1984, p. 230 f., ill. 218 Utotombo - L'Art d'Afrique noire dans les collections privées belges, Brussels 1988, p. 211, ill. 173
Publications
AHDRC: 0015618