Lot 35
  • 35

A Fine Kongo Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

standing on a square base with metal tacks inset around the edge, the human figure with inset glass eyes, wearing a colonial hat with feathers attached, to the front and back two conical protrusions containing magical substances and "sealed" with disc-shaped mirrors encased by a mud parch; fine varied brown patina. 

Provenance

Reportedly from a Belgian private collection
Pace Primitive, New York, early 1980s
Barry Kitnick - Gallery "K", Santa Barbara
Acquired from the above, 1980s  

Exhibited

Washington D.C., The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Treasures, November 17, 2004 - August 15, 2005

Catalogue Note

For a closely related figure arguably by the same hand cf. Sotheby's, New York, November 11, 2004, lot 110.