Himba - DR Congo (No reserve price)

Large caryatid chair of the HEMBA tribe from Katanga province. These chairs were reserved for dignitaries. This chair was clearly influenced by the Bulisnijders. The hands open wide, the eyes almond-shaped, kneeling in an elegant pose. Scarifications on the abdomen. In heavy hardwood. With certificate.
Belgian private collection of
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek, 1949) graduated in the Graphic Arts department of the Plastic Arts at the Higher Saint-Luc Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf aka Stef Verstuyf was until 2014 art director and creative director in several international advertising agencies and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and figures (no weapons), mainly from the Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo,
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