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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Bonhams | New York | AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART | 105 | $****** - ****** | Luba Caryatid Figure from a Stool, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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43.2 cm (17 in)
Collected by an English doctor working in Zaire between 1945-47
Thence by descent
Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1993, Lot 143
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels
Eduardo and Myriam Uhart Collection, Paris, Barcelona and Chile
Dartevelle, Pierre, Arts-Kunst: Primitifs/Primitive/Primitieve IV, Brussels, 1994. Exhibition 22-26 June 1994
Intricately carved with multiple angles and projections, standing on shortened, muscular and rounded legs, the elongated torso with large protruding stomach, arms elongated and raised high above the head with flattened hands facing forward framing her head with a elongated, openwork coiffure; raised scarification decorate her abdomen and back; fine glossy dark brown patina.