The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection

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Lot 33
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A Superb and Rare Yombe Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

the figure with crossed legs, a bag slung over the left shoulder, an iron chain around the neck, the large oval eyes accentuated with kaolin behind pieces of glass, a bundle of magic material attached to the abdomen, another bundle inserted into a cavity at the back of the head; fine dark brown patina with traces of kaolin.

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Jan Olof Ollers, Sweden
Sotheby's London, March 26, 1973, lot 188
R.H. Reding
Acquired at Sotheby's London, June 23, 1981, lot 192

Exhibited

Stockholm, National Museum, Negerkonst, March - April 1953 and Gothenburg Ethnographic Museum September 25 – November 29, 1953
Stockholm, Galleri Doktor Glas, Kongo Niger: Afrikansk Skulpture - African Sculpture, 1968

Literature

Nationalmuseum Stockholm (ed.), Negerkonst, Stockholm, 1953, 71, cat. no. 461 (unillustrated)
Hans Eklund, Kongo Niger: Afrikansk Skulpture African Sculpture, Stockholm, 1968, pp. 29-30
Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, 1989, p. 363, fig. 943
Raoul Lehuard, Art Bakongo. Les Centres de Style, vol. I, 1989, p. 280, fig. D-15-1-2

Catalogue Note

From the late 1930s, Dr. Jan Olof Ollers (b. Stockholm 1917 - d. Toronto 2001) formed his collection of African, Asian, and Northwest Coast American Indian art. An eye surgeon by profession, his interest in the visual arts was probably encouraged by his artist father.