KAVAKAVA
Moai Kavakava Statue
Easter Island, Polynesia
Wood... Lot 7
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KAVAKAVA
Moai Kavakava Statue
Easter Island, Polynesia
Wood with a beautiful reddish-brown patina
H. 50 cm
Provenance :
- Julius Carlebach, New York
- Irving B. Dobkin, Highland Park, IL, 1950s
- Taylor A. Dale, Santa Fe
- Private collection, New York
Bibliography:
- Splendid Isolation - Art of Easter Island, Eric Kjellgren, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2001
- Treasures of Easter Island, Catherine and Michel Orliac, Editions Louise Leiris, Paris, 2008
- 60 objects from Easter Island, exhibition catalog, Editions Louise Leiris, Paris, 2008
- Easter Island and its mysteries, Dr Stephen Chauvet, Editions TEL, Paris, 1935
Comparable works:
- Moai kavakava, Collections of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary SS. CC, Rome in Trésors de l'Ile de Pâques, Catherine and Michel Orliac, 2008, p. 126
- Moai kavakava, probably collected around 1825, former W.O.Oldman collection, preserved in the Te Papa Museum, Auckland.
- Moai Kavakava, collected before 1933, kept in the British Museum, London (1933 10-14)
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