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Luba-Songye pipe, D. R. Congo (Copy)
Luba-Songye pipe, D. R. Congo (Copy)
A very rare and large Luba-Songye water pipe from the south eastern DR Congo area. Anthropomorphic female, made in dark stained soft/light wood. Seven pipes in this style are published in the Van Rijn, AHDRC archive, most of them belonging to museum collections. A pipe in this style most probably carved by the same carver or workshop was published 1933 in the magazine Hebdomadaire ( see photo). Two photos from the Galleri Glemminge catalogue. Last 2 photos with one pipe from the book and exhibition catalogue ART/artifact ( The center for African art, 1988, Prestel-verlag.
H. 55 cm
Provenance:
CO Hultén (1916-2015), painter, COBRA group artist and one of the founders of Imaginisterna/The Imaginists in the 1940´s. African art collector.
Hultén bought the pipe 1956 from Lau Sunde; Galleri Etnografica Copenhagen, Denmark.
Exhibited:
- Galleri Glemminge 1976, CO Hultén paintings and African art from Collection Hultén. Glemminge, Sweden
- CO Hultén, Vandra och förvandla, Liljewalchs Konsthall 1978-1979, Stockholm, Sweden
- Malmö Konsthall, 1982, CO Hultén- Works 1937-1982, Malmö Sweden
- Gallery Astley, 1997, MAGINS HJÄRTA. Uttersberg, Sweden
Published: Galleri Glemminge catalogue CO Hultén, 1976.
Price on request.