Ceramic (firestone), 12 x 14 x 13 cm.
Initials « FH » engraved inside.
Private collection.
Surely, it must be one of the four Tiki made by Hippolyte to curse Gauguin!!? There is drawing of it in the leaves of Hippolyte’s sketchbooks and it could be a caricature of Gauguin.
As a strange coincidence with the collective and universal unconscious that travels throughout history, we can see a resemblance with the flying head in the movie « Zardoz » by John Boorman, or with the gilded idol in the movie « The raiders of the lost ark » by Steven Spielberg, or even with the character Modok by Jack Kirby…
… From a truly fake story by Gaya…