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Lot 95 Dα

BONGO POST

Auction 1241 - overview Brussels
31.01.2024, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.500 €
Result: 4.032 € (incl. premium)

BONGO POST
Tonj Region, Sudan

151 cm. high

Provenance

Max Itzikovitz, Paris
Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
De Baecque & Associés, Paris, 14 November 2018, lot 182

Literature

Krüger, K.-J., ‘The Arts of Bahr-el-Ghazal: Funerary Sculpture of the Bongo and Belanda‘, in Tribal Arts, Winter/Spring 1999/2000, p.93, fig.17.
According to Krüger the carver of this figure specialises in ringed poles topped with heads. Among his many works this is the only known sculpture which depicts an entire figure.