Patrik Fröhlich Arts from Africa and Oceania
Patrik Fröhlich gallery is specialized in Arts from Africa and Oceania.
Biography
Galerie Patrik Fröhlich from Zürich, Switzerland is specialized in African and Oceanic Art since 1994.
The gallery focuses on important artworks, mainly from old provenances.
These historical objects come from a time and place where they had to fulfill their ritual functions and are accordingly of intense and strong presence and perfect forms and aesthetic.
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KAKAME FIGURE
Gulf of Papua, Era River,
Gope region, Aimei village
19th - early 20th century
Wood, pigments
Height: 71.4 cm
Provenance :
Collected by Thomas Schultze-Westrum, 1966
John Friede, Rye, New York
Publication:
New Guinea Art - Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, 2005, n° 456, p. 482
This sculpture is very similar to one published by Haddon in 1918, which he saw in a ceremonial house and which was called abioabio, a magical object used to render a pirogue invisible when the crew went on a head-hunting expedition.
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Contact
Obere Zäune 24, CH-8001, Zürich, Suisse
+41442428900
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