Specifications

• Height: 169,5 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: 
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: tunggal malehat
• Price realised: € 7.500,-

Provenance

Musée Barbier Müller, Geneva, inv. nr. BMG 3102/B; Stéphane Mangin, Paris; Pierre Bergé, Paris 5-6-2007, lot 589; Sotheby’s Paris 4-12-2019, lot 61.

Publications

Additional information

The figure stands on a singa, hands in dhyanamudra, on the chest a rectangular hole to charge the image with pupuk, magic substance. From the beak of the singa a snake issues.

Photo credits

Sotheby’s Paris