Door
Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé
Vendu
5 000 €
Provenance
Migeon, Paris, France (collected before 1920)Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (before 1979)
Claus D. Schmidt-Luprian, Munich, Germany
Sotheby’s Paris, 5 December 2006, lot 173
Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Taille
H: 153 cm
B: 63,5 cm
H: 60.2 inch
B: 25.0 inch
Description
light brown wood, brown patina, in flat relief carved with a standing female figure, holding to items (shovel and sickle?) in her hands, min. dam., minor missing parts through insect caused damage, slight traces of abrasion, metal socle;
carved doors had largely disappeared from Baule villages by the 1960s. Some were completely visible on the outside of houses. Others were for interior rooms, and were seldom seen by anyone outside the family.