Luba Caryatid Figure from a Stool, Democratic Republic of the Congoheight 17in (43cm)ProvenanceCollected by an English doctor working in Zaire between 1945-47 Thence by descentSotheby's, London, 21 June 1993, Lot 143Pierre Dartevelle, BrusselsEduardo and Myriam Uhart Collection, Paris, Barcelona and ChilePublished and ExhibitedDartevelle, Pierre, Arts-Kunst: Primitifs/Primitive/Primitieve IV, Brussels, 1994. Exhibition 22-26 June 1994Intricately carved with multiple angles and projections, standing on shortened, muscular and rounded legs, the elongated torso with large protruding stomach, arms elongated and raised high above the head with flattened hands facing forward framing her head with a elongated, openwork coiffure; raised scarification decorate her abdomen and back; fine glossy dark brown patina.