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STATUE SONGYE

Lot 27
20.10.2022 15:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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€ 390 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 822194
Lot 27 | STATUE SONGYE
Estimate value
€ 400 000 – 600 000
STATUE SONGYE

RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO

Hauteur : 75 cm. (29 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Collection Joseph Corneille (José) Van den Boogaerde, Bruxelles

Collection Paul Simpelaere (1906-2006), Knokke-Le-Zoute

Ader Picard Tajan, Nouveau Drouot, Paris, 18 juin 1984, lot 128

Alain de Monbrison, Paris, en 1997

Collection Béatrice et Patrick Caput, Paris



Literature

Neyt, F., La redoutable statuaire songye d’Afrique centrale/Songye. The Formidable Statuary of Central Africa, Anvers, 2004, pp. 126-127 et 320, n° 91

Bouttiaux, A.-M., Mack, J. et Wastiau, B., África. La figura imaginada, Palma de Majorque, 2004, p. 178, n° 156

Bouttiaux, A.-M., « África. La figura imaginada. Between Sublimation and Fantasies: Sculpted Bodies and Incarnated Spirits from West Africa » in Art Tribal, n° 6, Genève, automne 2004, p. 59

Plisnier, V. et Caput, P., Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d'une collection, Milan, 2016, pp. 120-123 et 248



Exhibited

Palma de Majorque, Fundació ”La Caixa” a les Illes Balears, África. La figura imaginada, 9 juin - 29 août 2004

Tarragone, Fundació ”La Caixa, Centre social i Cultural de l'Obra Social, África. La figura imaginada, 17 septembre - 1er novembre 2004

Espagne, Valence, Almodí de València, Sala Municipal d'exposicions, África. La figura imaginada, 23 novembre 2004 - 30 janvier 2005

Saragosse, La Lonja, África. La figura imaginada, 25 février - 10 avril 2005

Paris, Galerie Bernard Dulon, Arts d'Afrique. Portraits d'une collection, 4 - 26 novembre 2016



Post lot text

SONGYE FIGURE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Africa
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