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Auction archive: Lot number 12

Afo Standing Female Figure, Nigeria

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 12

Afo Standing Female Figure, Nigeria

Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Wood height 12 1/2in (32cm) Provenance Ralph Nash, London/Cannes Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above 1972 Exhibited National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1987 – 2004 The artist of this dynamic sculpture has created a wonderful array of angles, volumes, lines and forms which juxtapose and complement each other creating movement and strong emotion; fine dark brown, partially reflective patina with areas of encrustations. Cf. African Heritage Archives no. 0091298 for a sculpture sharing similar features.

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
11 May 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
Beschreibung:

Wood height 12 1/2in (32cm) Provenance Ralph Nash, London/Cannes Robert and Nancy Nooter Collection, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above 1972 Exhibited National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1987 – 2004 The artist of this dynamic sculpture has created a wonderful array of angles, volumes, lines and forms which juxtapose and complement each other creating movement and strong emotion; fine dark brown, partially reflective patina with areas of encrustations. Cf. African Heritage Archives no. 0091298 for a sculpture sharing similar features.

Auction archive: Lot number 12
Auction:
Datum:
11 May 2021
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York
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