butti Wood, ritual charge, fiber, pigments height 17 7/8in (45.5cm) Provenance Robert Lehuard Collection, acquired in 1928 Raoul Lehuard Collection, Arnouville, France Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris Antonio Onrubia Collection, Barcelona Exhibited Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris, Téké, Collection de Robert et Raoul Lehuard , June 1999 Fundación Fco. Godia, Barcelona, Africa: Colecciones Privadas de Barcelona , 27 February to 30 June 2003 Fundación Caixa de Girona, Girona, Art Africa , 22 July to 18 September 2005 Published Lehuard, Raoul, Statuaire du Stanley Pool , Villiers le Bel, Paris, 1974, fig. 32 Lehuard, Raoul, Les Arts Batéké , Arnouville, 1996, fig. 2.1 Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Téké: Collection de Robert et Raoul Lehuard , Paris, June 1999, p. 14 Fundación Fco. Godia, Africa: Colecciones Privadas de Barcelona , Barcelona, 2003, fig. 48 Arts d'Afrique Noire , no. 126, summer 2003, p. 18 Fundación Caixa de Girona, Art Africa , Girona, 2005, fig. 49 Onrubia, Antonio, La Diversidad de las Formas , Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., Barcelona, 2016, fig. 177 The Teke live primarily in the savanna near Brazzaville and, like many cultures in Africa, utilized fetishes charged with magical substances. These fetish figures are compact and powerful and are generally sculpted in very cubistic, angular forms as represented in the present work on offer. The helmet-like headdress perches high above the coiffure, sitting at an angle with a central crest; the face is incised linearly with a trapezoidal beard; the large cylindrical neck rests on the shoulder shelf; the arms, diminutive in scale, rest against the torso and are bent upwards at the elbows. A bundle of ritual charge covers the entire front of the torso with a downward projecting extended navel; varied dark and light-brown patina with encrustations.
butti Wood, ritual charge, fiber, pigments height 17 7/8in (45.5cm) Provenance Robert Lehuard Collection, acquired in 1928 Raoul Lehuard Collection, Arnouville, France Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris Antonio Onrubia Collection, Barcelona Exhibited Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris, Téké, Collection de Robert et Raoul Lehuard , June 1999 Fundación Fco. Godia, Barcelona, Africa: Colecciones Privadas de Barcelona , 27 February to 30 June 2003 Fundación Caixa de Girona, Girona, Art Africa , 22 July to 18 September 2005 Published Lehuard, Raoul, Statuaire du Stanley Pool , Villiers le Bel, Paris, 1974, fig. 32 Lehuard, Raoul, Les Arts Batéké , Arnouville, 1996, fig. 2.1 Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Téké: Collection de Robert et Raoul Lehuard , Paris, June 1999, p. 14 Fundación Fco. Godia, Africa: Colecciones Privadas de Barcelona , Barcelona, 2003, fig. 48 Arts d'Afrique Noire , no. 126, summer 2003, p. 18 Fundación Caixa de Girona, Art Africa , Girona, 2005, fig. 49 Onrubia, Antonio, La Diversidad de las Formas , Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.L., Barcelona, 2016, fig. 177 The Teke live primarily in the savanna near Brazzaville and, like many cultures in Africa, utilized fetishes charged with magical substances. These fetish figures are compact and powerful and are generally sculpted in very cubistic, angular forms as represented in the present work on offer. The helmet-like headdress perches high above the coiffure, sitting at an angle with a central crest; the face is incised linearly with a trapezoidal beard; the large cylindrical neck rests on the shoulder shelf; the arms, diminutive in scale, rest against the torso and are bent upwards at the elbows. A bundle of ritual charge covers the entire front of the torso with a downward projecting extended navel; varied dark and light-brown patina with encrustations.
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