Ibo Female Standing Figure

Description:

Ibo Female Standing Figure, the attenuated figure stands straight with hands cupped in a gesture to the front, with sloping shoulders beneath a thick, elongated neck and head with an open mouth below a crested coiffure, block feet with anklets, heavily eroded and encrusted surface, with encrusted and embedded string of beads around the neck, mounted on wood base, ht. 28 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Westport, New York; Willy Okwerekwu, Boston, Massachusetts.
Estimate $800-1,200


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