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Descrizione : Ivory with a light, natural coating Object of great renown in Bwame society. A sculpture carved in ivory, which corresponds to an old style in Lega tradition. The statue faces the front, with its face in the shape of a diamond. Its half-closed mouth and eyes the shape of concentric disks bestow an expression of amazement upon the face. Its arms are barely noticeable, and its short legs sustain its cylindrical body. The sculpture is adorned with a series of zigzag patterns and small circles, which form a complex decoration. This is typical of Lega ivory works. This sculpture belongs to the category that has been defined by Belgian researcher Daniel Biebuyck in 1986 as one of the two greatest styles of Lega anthropomorphic sculptures: the flat, diamond-shaped face style.This type is very rare, and there are perhaps only 15 similar ones that we know about. Crafted by a sculptor from the 1800s, seven of them are exhibited in collections at the Musée Royal de l’Afrique Central in Tervuren, Brussels. This is a style that established itself in the second half of the nineteenth century. A similar sculpture, on an Inagaki base, was sold in Paris by Paul Guillaume (1891-1934) in the ‘30s. This sculpture comes from Josef Muller’s collection. It is likely that he acquired it during one of his trips to Paris between 1929 and 1942.In the photo here, taken from the Swiss magazine published in 1978, a year after Muller passed away, you can see the sculpture on the shelf, surrounded by other small African objects. PROVENANCE - Josef Muller antique collection (Solothurn, Switzerland 1887 - 1977) (*), - Former Paolo Morigi (Lugano) (Morigi inventory label num. 634), - Former private collection (Lugano), LITERATURE - DU - Europaische Kunstzeitschrift, Num. 450, August 1978, Zurich “Die Sammlung Josef Muller” pag. 69, - SOTHEBY'S African, oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art including property from Lerner, Shoher and Vogel collections New York auction on 11th May 2012, lots 165 and 201, - CHRISTIE’S “Art d’Afrique et d’Océanie” Paris auction on 23rd June 2016, lot 276, - CHRISTIE’S “Chefs-d’œuvre d’Arts d’Africaine et Océanien de la collection Adolphe Stoclet” Paris, auction on 30th October 2018, lot 73, - CAMERON ELISABETH L. “Art of the Lega” UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles, 2001, pag.165, fig. 8.93, pag. 166, fig.8.95, pag. 168, fig. 8.98,
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