Nigeria - Lot 109

Lot 109
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Nigeria - Lot 109
Nigeria Exceptional Jukun figure, north-east region Wood H.83 cm - L.22 cm (plinth) Commemorative statue of a royal ancestor displayed at a funeral or for apotropaic purposes. Provenance (according to family oral tradition) : Jean-Pierre Lamour, Paris, acquired in the '80s from a Parisian gallery owner, passed on by descent. During his 1965 fieldwork in the villages of Gwana and Pindiga, in the northeastern region of Jukun country, Arnold Rubin documented several anthropomorphic figures of the same type as this lot. He described their style as the Jukun "nuclear style", referring to what he considered to be the core of classical Jukun statuary in the northeast. This style is distinguished by its powerful stylization of the human body, whose purely geometric representation is reduced to a harmonious ensemble of concave and convex volumes. According to information obtained by Rubin, most of these figures were commemorative representations of royal ancestors. "The images represent deceased chiefs, their wives and guardians, and serve primarily to invoke their spirits. Such incarnation is said to be reserved for the founding ancestors and their most important successors" (Rubin, A., 2011, ibid., p. 300).
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