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A fine Bangwa figure from the Josef Herman collection
Bangwa Josef Herman Bangwa information request of availability ADD TO CART (click to email) price: SOLD This fine Bangwa figure from the Josef Herman collection has a nice encrusted patina, and a beautiful expression. It is quite rare to find these sickness figures that where used for healing. A little rope, under the belly, and a colerette under the neck. compare my small Bangwa miniature with the Bangwa Queen:
"Evans brings out sculptural details and emphasizes the form of the entire figure represented in a more classical pose.” The contrasts between photos taken by the two skilled artists "demonstrate remarkably different visions in their approaches to the same subject matter,” Grossman observes. The gelatin silver print is from the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, gift of Tucson Museum of Art. ©Walker Evans Archive, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ( read more about the interesting exhibition man ray african art and the modernist lens) Bangwa Josef Herman Bangwa information request of availability ADD TO CART (click to email) price: SOLD
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depicting the carving of a "Bangwa Queen” from Cameroon's Bangwa Kingdom
in 1935, Walker Evans photographed the animated figure, right, softly lit and
head-on, in keeping with his documentary style. "In contrast to Man Ray,
whose composition obscures form to draw attention to the sculpture's expressive
face, vitality and dynamic sense of motion,” says curator Wendy A. Grossman,
