Head sculpture "baathil" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3041738
sold
EUR 10,000
Provenance
Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, GermanyWalter Schmidt, Würzburg/Innsbruck, Germany/Austria
Size
H: 43,5 cm
H: 17.1 inch
Description
wood, matt patina, remains of pigments, rising from columnar neck, carved with tribe-typical facial features and “phisa” coiffure, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion, base
Comparing literature
Bognolo, Daniela, Lobi, Mailand 2007, p. 136
Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 63; Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 101, ill. 108AHDRC: 0005377