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Polychrome carved wooden sculpture depicting a bird (head br…
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246
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Polychrome carved wooden sculpture depicting a bird (head br…
See original version (French)
Estimate €30 - €50
Voluntary lot
Description
Polychrome carved wooden sculpture depicting a bird (head broken, needs reattaching)
Abelam. Papua New Guinea
Height (without plinth): 75 cm
Expert: Mr Stéphane Mangin
Provenance: Collection of the painter François Bouillon.
François Bouillon taught at the École nationale supérieure d’art in Dijon and later at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. A self-taught artist, he spent time as a child in the studio of his grandfather, a painter, and went on to collect African and Oceanic art objects. Through his many travels, he developed an interest in the primitive signs and symbols of a universal culture.
Through the use of various techniques (drawing, painting, reworked photography, sculpture, installation, etc.) and the use of ‘primitive’ elements (stone, earth, fire, feathers, bone, tree branches, metal, marks) and recurring forms (spirals, dots, cones, crosses, inversions, etc.) he creates works in which the creative process plays a central role.
For François Bouillon, a contemporary artist and collector of primitivist art, the modern gesture cannot be separated from a primitive imprint. It is accompanied by a search for origins which, beyond historical and specifically cultural developments, points to the very essence of humanity in its most raw form.
(Maisondupeuple.fr)
[Primitive Art – Africa – Oceania – the Americas]
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