Luguru Female Figure, Tanzania
height 9in (23cm)
standing upright on proportionally large feet, her arms at the sides and bent at the elbows, the spherical head with incised coiffure and diminutive facial features including inlaid bead eyes, wearing a multi-strand, multi-colored bead belt; smooth, honey-brown patina with collector's mark "FE905" in white lettering on left foot.
Provenance:
Marc Felix, Brussels
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Private Collection, Stuttgart
Published:
Tanzania. Meisterwerke Afrikanischer Skulptur/ Sanaa za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika, published by Jens Jahn for Haus der Kulturen, Berlin and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1994, fig. 64
standing upright on proportionally large feet, her arms at the sides and bent at the elbows, the spherical head with incised coiffure and diminutive facial features including inlaid bead eyes, wearing a multi-strand, multi-colored bead belt; smooth, honey-brown patina with collector's mark "FE905" in white lettering on left foot.
Provenance:
Marc Felix, Brussels
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Private Collection, Stuttgart
Published:
Tanzania. Meisterwerke Afrikanischer Skulptur/ Sanaa za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika, published by Jens Jahn for Haus der Kulturen, Berlin and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1994, fig. 64
Sold for
US$ 2,000
inc. premium
Category: Ethnographic Art / African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
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