From the ex private collection of African Art Emile Robyn ( Brussels, Belgium ). With its forms and proportions, this piece of art echoes the statues in Bronze from Giacometti. The tchitcheri represents an ancestor symbolized with a human body and an abstract face. It is originally stuck in the soil. The tchitcheri sakwa refer to the memory of the founder of a clan. It's the grandfather of Emile, Abel Robyn, that started the collection in 1850, who was transmitted over three generations. At the death of Abel in 1895, his son, Jérôme Robyn did inherited the collection which he continued to fulfil until his death in 1968. Emile Robyn inherited from his father and also continued this magnificent collection with all the piece of art he bought from notorious art dealer, auction house or famous art collector. Lots of the pieces from this collection where shown durring shows such as " Parcours des Mondes " in Paris. Emile Robyn born in 1942, has now choosen to sold his whole collection through our gallery, La Porte Dogon.
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