49. FON FIGURE, REPUBLIC OF BENIN bocio wood, rope, bones, terracotta, metal, shells, plant material, clay, sacrificial patina Height 29 cm Provenance Anne & Jacques Kerchache, Paris Literature Kerchache, J. et al., Vaudou, Paris, 2011, pp.172-173, and p.223, fig.5 Exhibited Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Vaudou, Paris, 5 April - 25 September 2011 The small head in front of the figure is very likely older and sculpted by the same hand as the important Fon figure collected by Jacques Kerchache around 1950–1960, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York (see Leuzinger, E., Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika, Zurich, 1970, p.129, fig.H 9). To be sold without reserve