Figural fragment · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3038048
sold
EUR 1,150
Provenance
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA (1970’s)Size
H: 21,5 cm
H: 8.5 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted blackish brown patina, overlong neck with prominent Adam’s apple, block-like extremely bent legs, collection number handwritten in black on red ground backside at the lower legs “L.73./5…”, sacrificial patina, slightly dam., rep. (face with vertical break), metal plate
Comparing literature
Ezra, Kate, Art of the Dogon, New York 1988, p. 59