A male Baule sculpture, Ivory Coast, posted on a circular base, seating on a one legged stool, with flattened feet, one hand touching the striated goatee, the other holding an egg in its hands, a finely curved mouth, beneath a narrow linear nose leading to arching brows, open almond-shaped eyes, semicircular ears, scarification marks all over the sculpture, capped by a domed, fine striated four parted coiffure; brown to reddish surface, traces of age and ritual use.

Lit.: Susan M. Vogel: Baule. African Art, Western Eyes, 1997; Bernard de Grunne: Über den Baule-Stil und seine Meister. In: Eberhard Fischer/Lorenz Homberger: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zurüch 2014, p. 81-106.

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Height: 51 cm
Weight: 1.8 kg