Demi-figure "kakudji", env. 1930
R. D. Congo, Kete Lulua (Luluwa)
Vendu
2 200 €
Provenance
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, BelgiumMarc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Thomas Olbricht, Essen, Germany (1996)
Taille
H: 14 cm
H: 5.5 inch
Description
wood, metal, base
This expressive object, sweating heavily in places, bears the inventory number “FC90 153” by Marc Leo Felix.
He describes the object as a “rare half-figure in the Kakudji genre”…, very cubistic, loaded with symbolic substances". The work has “Luba, Lulua and Kanyok features atop a Kete typological and stylistic foundation”.