Himba - DR Congo (No reserve price)

Kneeling female ancestral figure of the Hemba people, related to the Luba from Katanga Province in the DR Congo. Serene facial expression and the typical scarifications on the abdomen. Protruding navel. Materials: wood and pigments. In good condition.
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 the 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 (not weapons), mainly from Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.