Female bust of gilded wire, Spain, mid-20th century
Starting price 100 €
Lot 6
Igbo statue, Nigeria, c. 1960
This highly ornamented female statue, seated on a chair, depicting her feminine attributes, ivory bracelets on the wrists and ankles and strings of large beads around the neck, has very extensive scarification patterns, many of them geometric. This sculpture is a transition between the Igbo style of the north and that of the Idoma of the south. This type of object, depicting a noble female ancestor, is believed to have been used in funerary ceremonies in Ekwotame society. Reproduced: Catalogue "Africa Babel: the Art of a Continent", p. 76 left Height: 90 cm
Exhibitions:
2022-2024 Island of Fuerteventura “Art Africa: Ancestral Light”. Lighthouse of the Entallada. Cabildo of Fuerteventura.
2021-2022 Panama City. Government of Panama. “Art Africa: the spirit of the ancestors”. Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Casco Viejo.
2019-2020 Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. “Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent”. Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo.
2013-2015 Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (Madao). La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia.
2005 “Black Africa”, Leather Museum.
2004 “Black Africa”. Caixa Laietana Foundation, Barcelona. Main exhibition hall
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