Figure féminine debout "blolo bla" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3050024
Vendu
3 500 €
Provenance
Lempertz, Brussels, 24 October 2018, Lot 266Description
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.
Littérature comparée
Klever, Ulrich, Bruckmann's Handbuch der afrikanischen Kunst, München 1975
Publications
AHDRC: 0155002