Standing ancestor figure · R. D. Congo, Luba · ID: 3036598
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Provenance
Belgian Colonial CollectionChristie’s Paris, 4 December 2008, lot 193
Description
wood, slightly shiny middle brown patina, hermaphrodite figure with male and female attributes, the coiffure backside arranged cross-shaped, min. dam., small missing parts (right heel), cracks, base;
in Luba sculpture, hermaphrodism expresses the dualistic nature of power.
Littérature comparée
Roberts, Mary Nooter, Memory, New York 1996, p. 122, ill. 48