Standing female figure ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule/Agni · ID: 3036180

Description

light brown wood, blackish brown patina, carved with necklace, belt and foot rings, elaborate coiffure with two lobes, min. dam., small missing parts (base), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
sculptures of the Agni are quite rare, we don’t know much about them. In 1914, the renowned Liberian prophet William Harris arrived in the area of the Ivory Coast and through the fervour of his preaching induced whole populations to abandon their statues and traditional religious cults. As a consequence a lot of sculpture was destroyed.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3036180 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 171 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Publications

Africa Museum (ed.), The pleasure of collecting African art, The Harrie Heinmans Collection, Berg en Dal 1986, p. 96, ill. 180