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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 13, 2023 | Bonhams | New York | African and Oceanic Art | 63 | $****** - ****** | Luba Headrest, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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14 cm (5.5 in)
Wood
Galerie Sao/Marceau Rivière, Paris, 6 June 1990
Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York (Inv. no. 6024 on underside)
Midwest Private Collection
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
James Stephenson African Art, New York
New York Private Collection
As noted by Mary Nooter Roberts, "Headrests are wooden pillows that were commonly used by Luba peoples of earlier generations to protect elegant hairdos during sleep. The hairstyles of the figures supporting the headrests reflect actual nineteenth-century fashions. Headrests were articles of extreme intimacy and had great personal value for their owners, who considered them so sacred that they were sometimes buried with them." ( Body Politics: The Female Image in Luba Art and the Sculpture of Alison Saar , UCLA Fowler Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2000, p. 35, fig. 35)
Seated on a square base with incised geometric design on the sides, her legs curled underneath her body with scarification to her front, the head and arms form the structure below the head support; fine polished dark brown patina.
Luba Headrest, Democratic Republic of the Congo
musamo
Wood
Height 5 1/2in (13.4cm)
