Bronze African 'Walking Man' and 'Walking Woman' figures

A reader sent me this jpeg depicting a pair of West African bronze statues he had acquired and was re-considering in the wake of Sotheby’s sale of Alberto Giacometti’s $104.3 million Walking Man I. (Read more on that sale here.)

Alberto Giacometti with a `Walking Man,' photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson

The collector tells me his African statues are over 100 years old and hail from Mali. They do bear an uncanny resemblance to Giacometti’s 1960 attenuated figure.