Standing figure · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3052788
Starting price
EUR 6,000
Estimated price
EUR 12,000
Provenance
Ladislas Segy / Segy Gallery, New York, USASize
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
wood, heavily encrusted patina in some areas, base
For a work by the same workshop see AHDRC 0082060.
According to Ladislas Segy, this sculpture is a typical example of the figural woodcarving of the Dogon. The figure stands upright with slightly bent knees; the long arms extend at right angles and end in angular, downward-turned hands. Below the bent knees, the figure merges into a carved base, leaving the feet unmodelled.
Publications
Segy, Ladislas, African sculpture speaks, New York 1969, p. 153, ill. p. 154, 119; Segy, Ladislas, African sculpture speaks, New York 1975, p. 153, p. 154, fig. 119