Female doll "venavi" · Togo, Ewé · ID: 3037441
Vendu
200 €
Provenance
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, GermanyDescription
light brown wood, remains of kaolin, black paint, covered by a long dress, painted shorts with black dots, elaborate facial features and coiffure with side parting, rep. (breakage right foot), missing part (left foot), slight traces of abrasion;
a work of Adima Atiiogbe Mathias (1939, Zio - 1993) carving exclusively remittance works. His very elaborated and naturalistic figures show european influences of the colonial times (Colon style).