Specifications

• Height: 115 cm.
• Material: wood, shell?
• Position: crouching
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name:
• Price realised: € 22.680,-

Provenance

H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt (1860-1936), acquired between 1910 and 1915; on loan to the Colonial Institute (Present Tropenmuseum), Amsterdam until 1982; Christie’s Amsterdam 22 June 1983, lot 378; Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam; 1984 H.W. Liebenschütz, Berlin; Lempertz, Brussels, 10-5-2023, lot 225.

Publications

Wentholt, Arnold (2021), ‘De collectie H.J.A. Raedt van Oldenbarnevelt, van museum naar veiling’ in Jaarboek VVE 9: 20-41

Exhibitions

Additional information

The god-figure does not show real age, the post itself, though, seems older. The object was not acquired ca 1900, but in 1910 tot 1915. 

Photo credits

Robert Cusack, Cologne.