A male Baule sculpture, Ivory Coast, standing on flattened feet on a partly eroded, round base, beneath short legs with muscular calves and rounded buttocks, well emphasized genitals, a lengthy torso with a pointed navel and accentuated pectoral muscles, the rounded shoulders terminating in hands held to the abdomen, the left arm is surrounded by four carved bangles, scarification marks on the torso, back and neck beneath the large oval head with three parted beard beneath a full-lip mouth, flattened nose leading to high arched brows, framed by downcast eyes, c-shaped ears with a significant tragus, further geometric raised scarfications on the face, wearing an elaborated backswept coiffure with two pigtails at the back; blackened to dark brown patina, traces of age and ritual use, provenance Amadou Bouaflé.

Povenance Amadou Bouaflé, during his performance on 30.12.2019 in his house in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

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

800 - 900,- Euro

Height: 50 cm
Weight: 1.2 kg