Specifications

• Height: 37 cm.
• Material: wood
• Position:
• Gender:
• Indigenous name: tau-tau
• Price realised: € 1.300,- hp

Provenance

Jacques Marchais, Paris; Fraysse & Associés, Paris 3-12-2007, lot 128

Publications

Exhibitions

Additional information

The intimacy of this tau-tau head is a rare example of how the carver (and painter?) was able to render a certain person. The features are painted, so are the pupils

Photo credits

Fraysse & Associés, Paris