sabato 3 agosto 2019

lunedì 15 luglio 2019

Tangba (Taneka) couple

Tangba (Taneka) - Benin border Togo
Male and Female copule of ritual objects (fetishes? twin figures? Dance implements?)
Wood, leather, cowries.



























In situ photo of a female - female couple


























Tangba (Taneka) area


Gan bronze pendant - snake

7 cm.


Kukango bronze figures

Kulango bronze figures
Age: before 1825
2,5 - 5 cm



martedì 5 febbraio 2019

Dan mask "Gagon"

Dan mask "Gagon", 
22,5 cm

Prov.: Charles Hug (1899-1979) collection (acquired in Paris between 1929 and 1932); Lempertz Auction Bruxelles 31 Jan. 2018 (lot.111)


Collected before 1932.



Exhibitions:              
St.Gallen Industrie-und Gewerbemuseum, "Transozeanische und Negerkunst aus St.Galler Privatbesitz", May/June 1933  
Rietberg Museum, Zurich, "Masken der Wè und Dan – Elfenbeinküste", 1997 
Published :               
Homberger, L., Masken der Wè und Dan - Elfenbeinküste, Zurich,                                                1997, p.77, n°46. 




















The swiss painter Charles Hug (1899-1979) selfportrait










lunedì 4 febbraio 2019

Like in a japanese Anime Superdeformed...

This Lega bone statuette (12 cm.) shows all the creative oddness of certain examples of this style: Like in a japanese Anime Superdeformed…