Standing female figure · Burkina Faso, Guin · ID: 3048137

Name: Standing female figure
SKU: 3048137
Price: 400 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 400

Provenance

Walter Grasser, Munich, Germany

Size

H: 30 cm

H: 11.8 inch

Description

wood, base

For a figure, possibly by the same artist, see AHDRC 0003179. Another figure, stylistically very similar, published in Bamert, 1980, p. 299.

Figures of this style are found in literature, but have been attributed to different groups (Turka, Mangbetu). According to Haselberger, who conducted field research in the Upper Volta region in the 1960s, these figures are to be located among the Guin.

The object Standing female figure with the object ID 3048137 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 67 achieved a sales price of EUR 400.

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