Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022
Lot 558
A Holo door
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £5500
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Description
A Holo door
Democratic Republic of the Congo
of two panels relief carved the Corpus Christi on a part crucifix and a kneeling praying figure, late 19th / early 20th century,
150cm high, 51cm wide.
Provenance
Reportedly collected in 1965 from a burning church in Zaire, by former CIA agent Lawson B. Mooney
Loed (Ludwig) van Bussel, Amsterdam.
Tom Phillips, London.
Kevin Conru, Brussels.
Christie's, Paris, Arts d'Afrique, d'Oceanie et d'Amerique du Nord, 10 April 2019, lot 119.
Published
Africa, The Art of a Continent, edited by Tom Phillips, 1999, p.256, pl.4.23.
Exhibited
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 4 October 1994 - 21 January 1996.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 7 June 1996 - 29 September 1996.