Specifications

• Height: 175 and 155 cm.
• Material: wood, glass
• Position: standing
• Gender: male, female
• Indigenous name: ai tos
• Price realised:€ 15.000,- hp

Provenance

Willem Zwiep, Amsterdam 1990-2001; Private Dutch collection; De Zwaan, Amsterdam 23-4-2021, lot 3389.

Publications

Cinatti, Ruy (1987), Motivos Artisticos Timorenses e a sua integracau, ill. 41; ref.: Barbier, Jean Paul (1984), Indonesian Primitive Art, plate 46.

Exhibitions

Additional information

Small corpus of works hails from this area bordering the Indonesian border, a half-figure currently in the Musée Quai Branly- Jacques Chirac and a mask in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva.

Photo credits

de Zwaan, Amsterdam