BY KILOKO OF KAMINA

Details

A LUBA KNEELING FIGURE
By Kiloko of Kamina
The ridged coiffure with cascade over the nape of the neck, a band of notched keloids to the forehead, large hands carved in relief on the abdomen, large feet at the rear, black patina
17cm. high

Provenance

Leon Underwood

Literature

Underwood, L., Figures in Wood from Africa, London, 1947, reprinted 1964, fig.60 (right)
Fagg, W., Miniature Wood Carvings of Africa, Bath, 1970, p.93, fig.90

Exhibited

African and New Guinea Sculpture from the Josef Herman Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1969, no.24

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

Kiloko worked in Busangu, a village about seventy kilometres from Kamina. S. Peeraer bought five of his carvings in 1936, see "The Luba Shankadi Style" African Arts, Autumn 1973, Vol.VII, no.1, p.8 fig.1, p.14 fig.13, p.15 fig.14.

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