Female bulul Sculpture, northern Luzon, Philippines
Wood, pigments, crusty patina
H. 57cm
Provenance:
Espino collection, Manila, before 1978
J.J. Klejman, New York
Private collection, New York
Publication:
Loudmer-Poulain Paris, Arts Primitifs, December 16th 1978, lot 97
Sold
This female bulul sculpture made by an artist of the Ifugao in northern Luzon with its rich, multilayered sacrificial patina that indicates great age is a marvelous example of its style. Every single line – such as the hearth-shaped form that builds the face or the negative space between the arms – is of uttermost precision. The legendary dealer J.J. Klejman acquired it in 1978 from a Loudmer-Poulain auction in Paris for which Charles Ratton and André Schoeller served as experts and subsequently sold it to an important collection of extra-European art in New York of which it was part for several decades.