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Size127 cm MaterialWood OriginNew Ireland 19th Century Provenance The Berend Hoekstra Collection "For me, primitive means basic, primary, brutal, essential... Essential to life, essential to art, essential to creating. For me, primitive is a compliment." Berend Hoekstra in Conru, "the eye of the Moko", Tribal 3, summer 2003. Berend Hoekstra is a well-known Dutch artist residing in Brussels. Born in Roosendaal in 1958. His paintings and sculpture are extremely powerful. At the age of 12, while visiting the satellite of the Leiden Museum in Breda, he enterderd in contact for the rst time with Oceanic Art. As a young artist in Amsterdam he nally met Loed and Mia van Bussel, who were specialist in Oceanic art and had an amazing collection. In those early days, he bought from them the incredible New Ireland ancestor head (lot 24). So early on, he had the chance to acquire important pieces wich today, would be dif cult to nd.