YORUBA TWIN FIGURE
ibeji - image-1

Lot 35 Dα

YORUBA TWIN FIGURE ibeji

Auktion 1241 - Übersicht Brussels
31.01.2024, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
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YORUBA TWIN FIGURE
ibeji
Ogbomosho, Oyo area

27.5 cm. high

Provenienz

Christie’s, London, 31 March 1982, lot 80
Peter and Vena Schnell, Zurich
Sotheby’s, Paris, 3 December 2004, lot 121
Millon & Associés, Paris, 23 January 2019, lot 16
French private collection

When catalogued by Christie’s, William Fagg suggested it might perhaps date from the nineteenth century and its possible origin as the western Igbomina area. John Pemberton III attributed it to Ilorin.