Standing female figure "blolo bla", Côte d'Ivoire, Baule, Size: H: 38,5 cm (H: 15.2 inch), ID: 3050024

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Lot 216

Standing female figure "blolo bla" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3050024

sold EUR 3,500

Provenance

Lempertz, Brussels, 24 October 2018, Lot 266

Size

H: 38,5 cm

H: 15.2 inch

Description

wood, white pigment, metal, missing parts, base

The figure embodies a “spouse from the otherworldly world”, whom the Baule believe that they can influence the fortunes of the living.

For a figure probably by the same carver, see Klever, 1975, p. 129, ill. 111.

Comparing literature

Klever, Ulrich, Bruckmann's Handbuch der afrikanischen Kunst, München 1975

Publications

AHDRC: 0155002

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