Male Figure
early 20th century
Object PlaceLake Sentani, New Guinea, Papua Province, Indonesia
Medium/TechniqueWood
DimensionsHeight x width, base: 28 x 11 1/2, 7 1/2 in. (71.1 x 29.2, 19.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of William E. Teel
Accession number2014.316
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
Provenance1929, acquired near Dojo, in the Lake Sentani region of Indonesia by Jacques Viot (b. 1898 – d. 1973) for Pierre Loeb (dealer), Paris [see note]. Samuel M. Koontz (dealer; b. 1898 – d. 1982), New York. September, 1999, sold by David Rosenthal Arts, San Francisco, to William and Bertha Teel, Marblehead, MA; 2014, bequest of William Teel to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 26, 2014)
NOTE: In 1929, Jacques Viot signed a contract with Pierre Loeb, who ran the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Loeb paid Viot to travel and purchase Oceanic art for him. By this time, many chiefs' houses had been destroyed and figural sculptures discarded as Christian missionaries had converted the Lake Sentani region. Viot removed about 60 submerged house posts and sculptures from the lake. He photographed this figure in 1929 before sending it to Paris; see S. Kooijman, The Art of Lake Sentani (New York, 1959), fig. 43.
NOTE: In 1929, Jacques Viot signed a contract with Pierre Loeb, who ran the Galerie Pierre in Paris. Loeb paid Viot to travel and purchase Oceanic art for him. By this time, many chiefs' houses had been destroyed and figural sculptures discarded as Christian missionaries had converted the Lake Sentani region. Viot removed about 60 submerged house posts and sculptures from the lake. He photographed this figure in 1929 before sending it to Paris; see S. Kooijman, The Art of Lake Sentani (New York, 1959), fig. 43.
20th century
19th–20th century
19th–20th century
19th–20th century
20th century
mid 18th–19th century
