Maurizio Giongo - " SERA", oil painting on canvas, signed, dated 2000
Jean Tinguely - screen print (the frame is also screen printed) - Montreux 1982 - large 110x80 cm
Jan Montyn - Ets/aquatint - 1984
Ans Wortel - Framed screen print with Swatch watch: Vive la paix - 1995
Type of artwork | Ethnographic art |
Period | 1945 to 1999 |
Technique | Wood |
Style | African |
Subject | Mask |
Dimensions | 36 x 26 x 18 cm (h x w x d) |
The Yoruba people, numbering over 12 million, are the largest nation in Africa with an art-producing tradition. Most of them live in southwest Nigeria, with considerable communities further west in the Republic of Benin and in Togo. They are divided into approximately twenty separate subgroups, which were traditionally autonomous kingdoms. Excavation at Ife of life-sized bronze and terracotta heads and full-length figures of royalty and their attendants have startled the world, surpassing in their portrait-like naturalism everything previously known from Africa. The cultural and artistic roots of the Ife masters of the Classical Period (ca. 1050—1500) lie in the more ancient cultural center of Nok to the northeast, though the precise nature of this link remains obscure.
Now two-third of the Yoruba are farmers. Even if they live in the city, they keep a hut close to the fields; they grow corn, beans, cassava, yams, peanuts, coffee, and bananas. It is they who control the markets -- along with the merchants and artisans: blacksmiths, copper workers, embroiderers, and wood sculptors, trades handed down from generation to generation.
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Condition | Very good | ||||||||||
see the photos for the condition, including the 2 stands | |||||||||||
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Pick up | The work can be picked up on location. As a buyer you must bring your own packaging materials. The location is: Hengelo, The Netherlands | ||||||||||
Shipment | Parcel post | ||||||||||
Price | Up to 5 kg.
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Pick up | Yes, possible |
Location | Hengelo, The Netherlands |
Start time | 8-11-2022 at 14:37 |
End time | 14-11-2022 at 22:44 |