African, Oceanic & Art of the Americas - 28th April 2022
Lot 1045
A Lobi standing figure by Lunkena Pale
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £600
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Description
A Lobi standing figure by Lunkena Pale
Gaoua, Burkina Faso
with bent knees and hands to the chest, and with a waistband of glass beads,
23cm high, on a base.
Provenance
Rene and Mercedes Lavigne Collection.
Christie's, London, African Art from the collection of Rene and Mercedes Lavigne, 24 March 1988, lot 87.
Exhibited
Zurich, 1981, no. 194.
Lunkena Pale of Gaoua was an apprentice of the master carver Sikire Kambire.