Pair of figures "bateba phuwe" · Burkina Faso, Lobi · ID: 3052249
Starting price
EUR 800
Estimated price
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Ilia Malichin, Baden-Baden, GermanyLempertz, Brussels, Belgium, 11 June 2011, lot 13
German Private Collection, Gaggenau
Size
H: 17,5 cm & 18,5 cm
H: 6.9 inch & 7.3 inch
Description
wood, pigments, base
The unusual and prominent form of the noses shows the figures to be a work of the “master of the hook-nosed figures”.
Comparing literature
Katsouros, Floros, Lobi, Der Meister der Hakennasenfiguren, Hannover 2012
Publications
AHDRC: 0140232