Rare set of four statues attributed to Thomas Ona Odulate (c - Lot 231

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Rare set of four statues attributed to Thomas Ona Odulate (c - Lot 231
Rare set of four statues attributed to Thomas Ona Odulate (circa 1900 - 1952), YOROUBA, Nigeria. Thomas Ona Odulate, better known as Thomas Oba, was a Yoruba woodcarver. He worked in Ijebu Ode or Ikorodu, and later in Lagos, producing satirical sculptures of colonial administrators, missionaries, Europeans and Yoruba. Here we have a soldier, a missionary, a colonial administrator and a Yoruba king (the Oba). Height: 21 cm - 23 cm and 25 cm. Small chips and missing parts. Provenance: Collection of a French expatriate who returned to France in 1930. He worked for SCOA (Société commerciale de l'Ouest Africain). By direct descent.
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