Couple de figures
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- Couple de figures
Lot: 149
98e vente aux enchèresCouple de figures
Guinée-Bissau, Archipel des Bissagos, Bidjogo
Provenance | Taille | Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation |
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Jean Yves Coué, Nantes, France Jean-Louis Capuno, Lannion, France Pousse-Cornet-Valoir, Blois,14 December 2020, Lot 281 |
H: 41 cm & 43 cm | Cet objet n’est plus disponible. |
wood, inscribed "Pelt"
Unusual pair of figures. The physignomy of the hat-wearing figure bears resemblance to a monkey, but the sexless body is human. The hat, borrowed from the former colonial masters, is often found on "iran otibago" figures of the Bidjogo.
Possibly the representation of a revered ancestral couple.