Ancestor statue - Mbole - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Are you interested in this item?This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Dimensions: 29,5 x 6,5 cmProvenance: Former N. De Kun Collection, Belgium, .Sothe-by's London, Primitive Art, 8th of July .Former Bruno Conti Collection, Brussels, .Former Jos Humblet Collection, Brussels-Sablon, . Ownership: L&Z Arts Gallery. Estimated age: Early 20th century.Material: wood. Mbole artists are renowned for their anthropomorphic figurines, with their hands on their hips, the shoulders projected frontwards, they represent a hangman called Ofika. This is why this piece is extremely rare, this is a figurine representing the ancestors, carved in a similar style; they are recognisable by their flatened shoulders and their horizontal feet, I invite you to discover a similar figurine in the book of J-B Bacquart, L'Art tribal d'Afrique Noire, P.145, Figure 4. Sold with a certificate of authenticity of the L&Z Arts Gallery. It can be viewed during the auction, upon appointment. Secured shipment or pick up at the gallery. Read more