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Descrizione : height 11 1/2 in. (29.2cm.)the torso pierced through transversely beneath the tapering torso with incised scarification in arching forms on the front and rows of repeating diamonds on the reverse, the rounded shoulders hunched forward and leading to the curving arms held forward and framing the dramatic pendant conical breasts, a finely carved notched spine on the back, beneath a flat round face decorated with three lines of raised scarification inset and radiating from the downturned mouth, a similar single line across the domed forehead, with a raised nose and asymmetrical attached circular discs for the eyes, and framed by raised pierced circles for the ears, wearing a wig-like coiffure descending from the crown with elegant long crosshatched tresses and a smooth medial ridge; shiny black patina, Inagaki base. Provenance: Docteur Paul Chadourne, Paris Morris Pinto, Paris Published: Sweeney, African Negro Art, 1935: figure 350 Radin and Sweeney, African Folklore and Sculpture, 1952: figure 72 Elisofon and Fagg, The Sculpture of Africa, 1958: 258 Perrois, La Statuaire Fang Gabon, 1972:369 Laburthe-Tolra and Falgayrettes-Leveau, Fang, 1991: 104-105 De Grunne, "Fang Statuary: A Classical Art Form", in The World of Tribal Arts, June 1994, issue 2, cover and page 51, figure 3 Phillips, Africa: the Art of a Continent, 1995:323, catalog 4.95 Exhibited: New York, African Negro Art, The Museum of Modern Art, 18 March-19 May, 1935 Paris, Fang, MusEe Dapper, 21 November 1991-15 April 1992 London, Africa: The Art of a Continent, The Royal Academy of Arts, 5 October 1995-28 January 1996 New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 5 June-29 September 1996 This extraordinary female torso was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1935 in the first comprehensive exhibition on African Art in the United States. This seminal exhibition included more than 600 pieces from across the continent of Africa. All the pieces were photographed by Walker Evans, although a much smaller number, including this figure, are pictured in the catalogue. This figure was only one of a number of works lent to the exhibition by Dr. Paul Chadourne, a french collector of African and Oceanic works of art whose objects were exhibited as early as 1930 at the Galerie Pigalle, Paris. Based on interviews with Fang people around the turn of the century Tessman (1913) wrote that Fang heads and torsos generally were earlier in carving date than the full figures, and they were thus subsequently much more rare. This expressive torso most closely resembles the famous Epstein figure, formerly in the Monzino collection (Vogel 1986: figure 99), and both are highly unusual within the corpus of Fang art. Tessman (ibid.) attributed the row of scarification marks, found on both figures, across the forehead to the Rio Muni Fang. In the case of these sculptures, the row on the forehead as well as the three rows on the chin are inset. This can also be compared with a large head of a closely related style, formerly in the Helena Rubinstein collection (Laburthe-Tolra and Falgayrettes-Leveau, 1991:106). The similar scarification markings have been incised and reach across only half of the domed brow. In addition, a number of formal qualities link this female torso and the Monzino male full standing figure, suggesting that they were more than likely carved by the same hand. The proportions of the large disc eyes to the face, the treatment of the ears carved as a circular discs in front of the coiffure, and the undercut coiffure carved as a single overall element show a strong cohesion of style. However, it is the plastic form of the body and the expressive nature of the faces in both figures which make them unlike any other known Fang figures and elevate them to the highest level of sculptural works of art.
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