éyéma-o-byéri
Wood with glossy black ritual patina
Height 16in (40.5cm)
Provenance
Dr. Gaston Durville Collection (1887-1971), Paris (remnant of label on underside of base)
Presumably Ladislas Segy New York, 1950s
Constance McCormick Fearing Collection, Santa Barbara, acquired in the 1960s
Thence by descent
Published
Segy, Ladislas, African Sculpture, Dover Publications, New York, 1958, Figs. 73 and 74
The Arts, February 1958 (Label attached to back of mount)
With overall rounded proportions and powerful form, the arms with delineated biceps carved away from the torso and rest together at the umbilicus; broad squared shoulders balance with rounded hips and support a powerful neck; the lozenge form head with large rounded forehead above almond-shaped eyes and mouth protruding at the chin; the coiffure with raised element at the top and cascading down the back in an S-curve that extends outward at the bottom.
éyéma-o-byéri
Wood with glossy black ritual patina
Height 16in (40.5cm)
Provenance
Dr. Gaston Durville Collection (1887-1971), Paris (remnant of label on underside of base)
Presumably Ladislas Segy New York, 1950s
Constance McCormick Fearing Collection, Santa Barbara, acquired in the 1960s
Thence by descent
Published
Segy, Ladislas, African Sculpture, Dover Publications, New York, 1958, Figs. 73 and 74
The Arts, February 1958 (Label attached to back of mount)
With overall rounded proportions and powerful form, the arms with delineated biceps carved away from the torso and rest together at the umbilicus; broad squared shoulders balance with rounded hips and support a powerful neck; the lozenge form head with large rounded forehead above almond-shaped eyes and mouth protruding at the chin; the coiffure with raised element at the top and cascading down the back in an S-curve that extends outward at the bottom.
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