LAKE SENTANI PAINTED BARK CLOTH - image-1

Lot 135 Dα

LAKE SENTANI PAINTED BARK CLOTH

Auction 1167 - overview Brussels
02.09.2021, 14:00 - Art of Africa, The Pacific and The Americas
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €

LAKE SENTANI PAINTED BARK CLOTH
Western New Guinea, almost certainly by Nyaro Hanuebi

104.5 x 105.5 cm., framed

Cf. Greub, S. et al., Art of Northwest New Guinea: From Geelvink Bay Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani, New York, 1992, p.139, fig.20, for a photograph of the artist, Nyaro Hanuebi with an almost identical painted bark cloth or maro. Jac. Hoogerbrugge recounts that when asked about the motifs Nyaro Hanuebi said: "At night I see the luminous dots of spirits (uaropo) moving on the beach close to and under my house, spritis coming from the sea and from the bush."