Shona art sculpture in the form of an egg signed N.V.M. Measurements: 9.5 inches tall x 4 inches wide. Good condition. During its early years of growth, the nascent "Shona sculpture movement" was described as an art renaissance, an art phenomenon and a miracle. Critics and collectors could not understand how an art genre had developed with such vigor, spontaneity, and originality in an area of Africa which had none of the great sculptural heritage of West Africa and had previously been described in terms of the visual arts as artistically barren until now.

Good condition.