Standing female figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3035874
not available anymore
Provenance
Charles Wentinck, Saumane, FranceAdrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
German Private Collection
Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch
Description
wood, strongly encrusted greyish brown patina, well-balanced body shapes, face with regular features, coiffure with characteristic neck lobe (“trè si kpolè”), raised scarifications, slightly dam., cracks (stomach, breast, left side of the head), minor missing part (base), pedestal;
presumably representing a “blolo bla” figure. Because of the sacrificial traces it could be a representation of an “asie usu” bush spirit as well.
Publications
Wentinck, Charles, Modern and Primitive Art, Oxford 1978, ill. 6aAHDRC: 0058079