Colon figure: policeman · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3039957
sold
EUR 500
Size
H: 63 cm
H: 24.8 inch
Description
wood, encrusted black patina, carved with a sharply defined european uniform: long pants, short-sleeved shirt with epaulettes, billed cap and holstered pistol, cracks, rep. (right forearm), metal plate;
scultpures such as this one might be made as a something more modern variant of an “otherworld man od woman” - “blolo bian of blolo bla” figure. W
Comparing literature
Vogel, Susan Mullin, Baule, African Art - Western Eyes, New York 1997, ill. 257