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Male figure with complex body decoration, C-14 dating: 1640–1880 (94.3% probability)
Wood, pigment, rattan repair to right ankle
58 x 20 x 5 cm (22 13/16 x 7 7/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
The Marcia and John Friede Collection, a Promised Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco L05.1.44

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Artist Biography: (none) PROVENANCE: "Walter Bondy Collection, Berlin (6347); Louis Carré Collection, Paris; Charles Suydam Cutting Collection, Gladstone, N.J." (Catalog #152, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 106-107.) EXHIBITIONS: 1934 - Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1934, "Surrealist Objects," organized by Charles Ratton. PUBLICATIONS: 2005 - "It is possible that this figure originally was a suspension hook. Something, perhaps a carved loop, appears to have been cut off the back of the head. Also, in the National-museet, Copenhagen, there is a similar but less refined figure, which is described as a former suspension hook with its lower part missing. See Kjersmeier, 1948, pl. 7." (Catalog #152, New Guinea Art: Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, Volume 2, p. 106-107.) 1984 - Rubin, 1984: 115. 1929 - Basler, 1929, pl. 69. 1928 - Drouot auction, Paris, May 11, 1928, the Bondy sale, no. 260a.

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