Description
A lot gathering two double bocio statuettes, one of which is a rare double-headed piquet statuette sculpted from the front, recalling one of the most famous voodoo sculptures of the Kerchache collection in its structure with two heads from the front and having neither a link nor a control cleat, it is a protective statuette, as well as for the other one concerning a couple; it is not a question of control or bewitchment statuettes here. See (among other publications) for the statuette cited in reference: Vaudou, Éd. Fondation Cartier, 2011, p. 51 and 53. Fon, Benin Wood, rope, wood plate, cowrie shells, feathers, sacrificial patina, very beautiful patina of use. H. 15 cm and 24.5 cm Provenance : Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection. Exhibition and publication : - Sotheby's New York sale, May 8, 1989, lot 25 (in lot for the 15 cm one) - Exhibition Vaudou, Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2011, works exhibited but not reproduced in the catalog.
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A lot gathering two double bocio statuettes, one of which is a rare double-headed piquet statuette sculpted from the front, recalling one of the most famous voodoo sculptures of the Kerchache collection in its structure with two heads from the front and having neither a link nor a control cleat, it is a protective statuette, as well as for the other one concerning a couple; it is not a question of control or bewitchment statuettes here. See (among other publications) for the statuette cited in reference: Vaudou, Éd. Fondation Cartier, 2011, p. 51 and 53. Fon, Benin Wood, rope, wood plate, cowrie shells, feathers, sacrificial patina, very beautiful patina of use. H. 15 cm and 24.5 cm Provenance : Anne and Jacques Kerchache Collection. Exhibition and publication : - Sotheby's New York sale, May 8, 1989, lot 25 (in lot for the 15 cm one) - Exhibition Vaudou, Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2011, works exhibited but not reproduced in the catalog.
