Female figure Lagana Mumuye - Lot 32

Female figure Lagana Mumuye Nigeria Wood H. 46 cm Provenance: - Collection Roland & Lydie Rappaport (1933-2017 & 1936-2021), Paris, France - Binoche et Giquello, Paris, June 14, 2022, Collection Lydie et Roland Rappaport, lot 97 Contrasting full and empty forms, this work features a long bust with slightly curved arms, framed by a small head stretched back and short, bent legs. The late discovery of these works, the long isolation of the Mumuye and the lack of information gathered in the field explain why it will be 2016 before a stylistic study of this corpus is published. In their book, Mumuye. Sculptures du Nigeria. La figure humaine réinventée, twenty categories of style, proof of the inexhaustible plastic richness of the region's sculptors.