Standing female figure ·  Madagascar, Sakalava · ID: 3035840

Description

wood, slightly shiny reddish brown patina, rising from a cone shaped (cut) base with a small platform, showing a broad and plane torso with both arms tight to the body, the right hand resting on the chest in a regardful manner, coiffure in characteristic burls, arranged in a circle at the back of the head with a lobe in the centre, slightly dam. (mouth, nose, eye zone), missing parts and cracks;
for madagascan people the ancestors “razana” guarantee the existence of the living people. This is why most of their sculpture is created for graves where it is exposed to wind and weather and obtains a heavily weathered look, which is not the case with present figure. She should have been placed inside and sureley she was not alone, since in Madagascar a female figure rarely appears without a male counterpart.

L’objet Standing female figure avec l’ID d’objet 3035840 a fait partie de l’enchère 75th tribal art auction en 30 novembre 2013 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 212.

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Littérature comparée

Phillips, Tom (Hg.), Afrika, Die Kunst eines Kontinents, Berlin 1996, p. 150