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

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