GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Gabon Kuyu Tribal Figure E

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GothamGallery Fine African Art - DRC Gabon Kuyu Tribal Figure E:
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Exceptional Large African DRC Gabon Kuyu Figure Sculpture

Inches: Height: 41 Inches
Centimeters: Height: 104 Centimeters
Measurements Sculpture Only
Material: Wood, Pigment
Estimated Age: Early 20th Century
Condition: Fair - Good
Remarks: Highly stylized large sculpture striking features elephant superstructure pigmented finished aged surface / Heavy dense wood 28 lbs
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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, scrapes and chips, worn areas, large age cracks, tribally repaired areas, overall condition fair to good. Thank you and please view my other items.

BACKGROUND
Living in the Republic of Congo, the Kuyu people are divided into two clans whose totemic animals are the snake and the panther. They achieve cohesion through a secret male society called Ottote. Kuyu artists carved wood figures known as Okue, who carry an emblematic animal on their heads. Very little is known about their function, but they are thought to be used during Ottote ceremonies.

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 profoundly influenced 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 see why 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 functional object 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 silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.

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