Auktion Zemanek-Münster

Auktion vom Samstag 19 September 2009

Tribal Art

Art objects

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Zemanek-Münster - Würzburg

Resultate der Auktion ohne Aufgeld

Female ancestor figure
Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea

wood, dull blackish brown patina, small traces of curvilinear painting, rising from thin, fragmentary legs, supporting a strong, block-like trunk with the arms carved close to the body, a massive neck carrying an outsized, elongated head with slanting face halves, culminating in a raised vertical middle ridge, the eyes with nassa snail inlay, flanking a flat nose with broad nostrils, traces of curvilinear paint, repainted (face, right leg), paint rubbed off, on base
H: 51 cm, (5002/001)

Provenance:
Galerie Folkmar von Kolczynski, Stuttgart, Germany

Female ancestor figure
Sepik, Papua-Neuguinea

wood, dull blackish brown patina, small traces of curvilinear painting, rising from thin, fragmentary legs, supporting a strong, block-like trunk with the arms carved close to the body, a massive neck carrying an outsized, elongated head with slanting face halves, culminating in a raised vertical middle ridge, the eyes with nassa snail inlay, flanking a flat nose with broad nostrils, traces of curvilinear paint, repainted (face, right leg), paint rubbed off, on base
H: 51 cm, (5002/001)

Provenance:
Galerie Folkmar von Kolczynski, Stuttgart, Germany