Fragment of an ancestor figure "thilkotina" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3035631
sold
EUR 2,700
Provenance
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, GermanySize
H: 43 cm
H: 16.9 inch
Description
wood, white pigment, clay, unusual: the circular framing of the big eyes, as well as the extremely broad and square shoulders, according to D. Bognolo classified as “jaa-pwa” style or “kelkoa”, extreme traces of insect caused damage and encrustations with clay, nevertheless artificial and expressive in effect, socle
Comparing literature
Bognolo, Daniela, Lobi, Milan 2007, ill. 15 Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, ill. 42 ff.