Standing female figure "asie usu", Côte d'Ivoire, Baule, Size: H: 41,5 cm (H: 16.3 inch), ID: 3047121

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Lot 177

Standing female figure "asie usu" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3047121

sold EUR 3,800

Provenance

Ulrich Klever, St. Georgen, Germany

Size

H: 41,5 cm

H: 16.3 inch

Description

wood, kaolin, base

The fancy hairstyle, as well as the luxurious equipment with scarification marks give this figure a very individual character.

It is completely dyed with kaolin and the encrusted structure in some places testifies to repeated sacrifice.

Publications

Klever, Ulrich, Bruckmann's Handbuch der afrikanischen Kunst, München 1975, p. 129, ill. 111

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