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Description : Buyu/Sikasingo Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo Wood with dark brown encrusted patina Height 22 1/2in (57.2cm) Provenance Harry A. Franklin Gallery, Beverly Hills, by 1976 Ruth and Mark Franklin Collection, San Francisco, acquired from the above in the 1980s Michael and Sharon Grebanier Collection, San Francisco, acquired from the above in the mid-1990s Acquired from the above by the present owner Published Berrin, Kathleen and Tom Seligmann, Forms and Forces: Dynamics of African Figurative Sculpture (Expo. Cat.), Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 1998, cat. no.44 Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste, The Tribal Arts of Africa, Thames & Hudson, London, 1998, p. 152, fig. 6 Exhibited Forms and Forces: Dynamics of African Figurative Sculpture, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1998 Evan Maurer and Allen Roberts note, 'The extraordinary ancestor statues discovered by Luc de Heusch in the vicinity of Kimano II were used by the Basikasingo, who belong to the Hutschwe group of the Boyo people. Some are among the most beautiful of the great ancestor figures, and undoubtedly constitute archetypes of supreme importance to the history of art in southeastern Zaire. We have hypothesized that the traditions according to which these works were created might have provided the origin of the full, rounded forms of Luba figure sculpture.' ( The Rising of a New Moon: A Century of Tabwa Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1985, p. 72) 'The scarification patterns on the figure's face are somewhat unusual for commemorative figures of this type and suggest a nineteenth-century origin, as do the nonarticulated arms. The small bowl-shaped receptacle carved on top of the head would have contained mixtures of herbs and other powerful substances.' ( Forms and Forces: Dynamics of African Figurative Sculpture, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1988, p. 53, cat. no. 44) For further information on this lot please visit the website
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