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Kota Reliquary Figure

Kota people – Gabon – circa. 1880 – Wood, copper, brass and iron
42,5 cm

Provenance:
Isaac Pailès collection, Paris

Jean-Claude Bellier collection, Paris

Entwistle, London

Private collection, USA

Publication:

Alain and Françoise Chaffin. L’Art Kota: Les figures de reliquaire. Meudon, 1979. P.122. nº40

This sculpture, with its extreme schematization of the human body, serving as a guardian of ancestral relics, is imbued with an unmistakable modernity.

This work is stylistically linked to the Obamba sub-group whose creations were at the origin of the so-called ‘classical’ form.

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