KAVAKAVA Moai Kavakava Statue Easter Island,... - Lot 7 - Giquello

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KAVAKAVA Moai Kavakava Statue Easter Island,... - Lot 7 - Giquello
KAVAKAVA Moai Kavakava Statue Easter Island, Polynesia Wood with a beautiful reddish-brown patina H. 50 cm Provenance : - Julius Carlebach, New York - Irving B. Dobkin, Highland Park, IL, 1950s - Taylor A. Dale, Santa Fe - Private collection, New York Bibliography: - Splendid Isolation - Art of Easter Island, Eric Kjellgren, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001 - Treasures of Easter Island, Catherine and Michel Orliac, Editions Louise Leiris, Paris, 2008 - 60 objects from Easter Island, exhibition catalog, Editions Louise Leiris, Paris, 2008 - Easter Island and its mysteries, Dr Stephen Chauvet, Editions TEL, Paris, 1935 Comparable works: - Moai kavakava, Collections of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary SS. CC, Rome in Trésors de l'Ile de Pâques, Catherine and Michel Orliac, 2008, p. 126 - Moai kavakava, probably collected around 1825, former W.O.Oldman collection, preserved in the Te Papa Museum, Auckland. - Moai Kavakava, collected before 1933, kept in the British Museum, London (1933 10-14)
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