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