Standing female figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo/Baule · ID: 3042069
Description
wood, brown patina, traces of black paint, breasts treated in a typical Senufo style, unusual tattoos: vertical band tattoos at the neck, hourglass-shaped scarification at the back, slightly dam. (nose tip, coiffure, ears), cracks, missing parts (right foot tip), abrasion of paint, rep. (breakage left foot), base
The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3042069 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 207.
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Comparing literature
Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 67, ill. 48