Kanyok Female Figure

Kanyok Female Figure, standing female figure, with straight muscular legs and rounded hips with exaggerated buttocks and pendant genitalia beneath a wide torso and protruding abdomen, slender bent arms terminating in flat hands on the torso, all beneath a thick neck and sculptured head with protruding lips and tongue, coffee bean eyes and a classical coiffure, black glossy patina, (most of the feet missing), ht. 22 3/4 in. Provenance: A private Massachusetts collection; Dr. Hugo Weissman Collection, Boston, since 1960; White Fathers, Society of the Missionaries of Africa. Literature: African Art in American Collections, Warren Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1989, fig. 1117, p. 433. Estimate $4,000-6,000 Missing front part of the feet. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.