Big female figure · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3034437
sold
EUR 2,600
Provenance
Lempertz Brussels, 28 April 2007, Lot 46Size
H: 125 cm
H: 49.2 inch
Description
wood, blotched patina, remains of pigments, crested coiffure, fragmentary (lower part of the body and legs missing), dam., insect caused damage, traces of weathering, cracks, metal socle;
of extraordinary and very rare size !
Comparing literature
Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 57, ill. 1