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Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Atié · ID: 3035044

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Provenance
Aloys Faust, Cologne, Germany
Size
H: 40,5 cm
H: 15.9 inch

Description

wood, rich blackish brown patina, slightly shiny, the arms amalgamated with the body, a columnar neck supporting a proportionally small head, provided with a fine grooved coiffure and delicate regular facial features, scarifications on neck and body, slightly dam. (base backside), paint rubbed off, socle;
the Atié are an ethnic group settling in the eastern part of the Ivory Coast’s Akan territory to the south of the Agni, sometimes already considered to be part of the Lagoon Peoples (Ebrié, Alangoa…). Their works of art are stylistically intermingled, their objects difficult to ascribe.


The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3035044 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 156.

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