Enok ateng male statuette - Lot 48

Enok ateng male statuette Kaka culture, Cameroon-Nigeria border Wood with superb smoke-black patina H. 44.5 cm Provenance: Michel Andrault - Michel Andrault Collection - Alain de Monbrison, Paris - Private collection, Paris Bibliography: - Pierre Harter, Keaka, Kaka & KAKA, Art Tribal, September 1994 This effigy bears witness to a consummate science of rhythm and volume. The position of the legs, the movement of the arms and the stylization of the nose and beard place the wide-open mouth at the heart of the composition. And with the disproportionate size and placement of his ears, it is plastically suggested that the ancestor hears and speaks. With Pierre Harter, we note once again that "through Kaka's great achievements, we see one of the centers of the great expressionist movement that stretches from the Be?nué to the Cameroon Grassland".