Standing ancestor figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3039164
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Provenance
Harrie Heinemans, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 158
French Private Collection
Size
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, slightly encrusted in some areas, elaborate carved coiffure, fine grooved with a long neck lobe, unusual skin scarification marks in horizontal rows on belly and back, slightly dam., missing part (back of the base), fine cracks, abrasion of paint, metal plate;
a comparable work carved by the same artist has been published in 1914
Comparing literature
Labouret, Henri, Notes contributatives à l‘étude du peuple Baoulé, II, Revue d‘Ethnographie et de Sociologie, 1914, No. 5-6