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The Laure-Marie and Daniel P. Biebuyck collection, Newton, Massachusetts.
Lot 47
A Pere figure
ht. 15 in.
Native American & Tribal Art Bonhams Skinner
1 June 2023, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Boston

US$4,000 - US$6,000

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A Pere figure

Lubero territory, Northern Kivu Province, Eastern Congo forest, standing on heavy feet with notched toes, the legs carved with stacked double-egg form knees and hips, supporting an attenuated barrel-form torso with projecting navel, the hands held out in front with arms outstretched, leading to the tapered shoulders, the neck adorned with a notched, disc necklace supporting a spherical head with upward looking face, with a squared, open projecting mouth, exaggerated lumpy nose and circular projecting eyes in a sunken orbital cavity with shell inlay for pupils, dark patina, with fiber belt around the hips, mounted on a wood base.
ht. 15 in.

Footnotes

Provenance: The Laure-Marie and Daniel P. Biebuyck collection, Newton, Massachusetts; Bonham's, New York, May 12, 2011, lot 2136; Joe Carr collection, Texas; Private collection, The Netherlands.

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