A female Baule sculpture, from the region Yamoussoukro, village Tiébissou, standing on an oval base, muscular legs ending in prominent buttocks, a slender torso with a pointed navel, tapering and hanging breasts, square shoulders leading to arms carved close to the body, the hands touching the abdomen, the torso is decorated with scarification marks on the front and the backside, the elongated cylindrical neck supporting an ovoid head, a mouth with full lips, a slender nose leading to wide, high arched brows, almond-shaped eyes which are bordered all around, further scarification marks at the corners of the mouth, on the cheeks, temples, forehead and on the neck, the head capped by a sophisticated striated domed coiffure with three ponytails arranged around the head; a fine touch patina with significant signs of use and age. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba, Korhogi, Ivory Coast.

Lit.: Susan M. Vogel: Baule: African Art Western Eye, 1997, p. 169 (169-187); 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; Alain-Michel Boyer: Baule. Visions of Africa, Milan 2008.

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Height: 50 cm
Weight: 1.3 kg