FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE LUMBO

Lot 29
07.12.2022 15:00UTC +00:00
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ID 860501
Lot 29 | FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE LUMBO
Estimate value
€ 120 000 – 180 000
FIGURE DE RELIQUAIRE LUMBO

GABON

Hauteur : 65.5 cm. (253/4 in.)





Provenance

Michel Huguenin, Paris

Alain de Monbrison, Paris

Collection Hubert Goldet (1945-2000), Paris

de Ricqlès, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, Collection Hubert Goldet, 30 juin - 1er juillet 2001, lot 269

Collection Laure-Marie (1927-2017) et Daniel P. Biebuyck (1925-2019), Newton (Massachusetts)

Transmis par descendance



Literature

Perrois, L., Problèmes d’analyse de la sculpture traditionnelle du Gabon, Paris, 1977, p. 64, fig. 13e

Perrois, L., Arts du Gabon. Les arts plastiques du Bassin de l'Ogooué, Arnouville, 1979, p. 230, n° 244

Thornton, L., « Black African Art in Paris » in The Connoisseur, vol. 206, n° 828, Londres, février 1981, p. 119

Felix, M., Art & Kongos, Bruxelles, 1995, p. 143, n° 8

Bacquart, J.-B., L’Art tribal d’Afrique Noire, Paris, 1998, p. 118, fig. A

Grand-Dufay, C., « La statuaire lumbu, un art tout en finesse révélé au début du XXe siècle » in Tribal Art Magazine, n° 77, automne 2015, Arquennes, p. 120, n° 20

Grand-Dufay, C., Les Lumbu, un art sacré. Bungeelë yi bayisi, Paris, 2016, p. 142, n° 92



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LUMBO RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON
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