GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Chokwe Figure B


GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Chokwe Figure B

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GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Chokwe Figure B:
$1450.00


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Superb African DRC Chokwe Figure

Measurement: Height: 23 Width: 8 Depth: 7 Inches
Measurement: Height: 58.5 Width: 20.5 Depth: 18 Centimeters
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Material: Wood
Estimated Age: Early 20th Century
Condition: Very Good
Remarks: Stylized figure exaggerated features elaborate coiffure superstructure with 2 figures varied brown patina
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CONDITION
Wood deterioration especially on base, large chips, age cracks some larger, age cracks along superstructure tribally repaired, overall condition very good. Thank you and please view my other items.BACKGROUND
The Chokwe, a matrilineal Bantu population, originally lived in the Serra de Muzamba, in central Angola. Particularly renowned for their fine sculpture, the Chokwe owe the refinement and wealth of their art to a very stable society and a very sophisticated court culture. They strongly influenced the art of neighboring ethnic groups. From the fifteenth century up to the middle of the nineteenth, the Chokwe lived in independent chiefdoms ruled by a monarch of divine right. Realism and attention to detail characterize these sculpted representations that one finds on chairs, combs, snuff mortars, scepters and pipes. Chokwe figurative art includes a considerable series of ancestor figures. The majority are representations of Tshibinda Ilunga or of deceased leaders (Mwanangana). Other sculptures evoke women, and are sometimes kept in memory of the female anonymous ancestor who also inspired the figure of the PWO mask. Most of these female figures recall the woman's important position: wife, mother or sister of a monarch, and pay devotion to a domestic cult. It is not in the facial expression that the woman is evoked, but rather by the combination of scarifications and details of the coiffure. This last-mentioned item appears to have most often been the principal element in iconographic identification.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundlyinfluenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to seewhy I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functionalobject for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silenttragic dignity and its air of profound meditation. GUARANTEE
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GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Chokwe Figure B:
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