A male Senufo sculpture, from the region Korhogo, village M'Bengué, Ivory Coast, bent legs leading to prominent buttocks, accentuated genitals, a slender torso with large pointed navel, rounded strong shoulders leading to angled arms with one bracelet around each upper arm and one ring around each wrist, the hands resting on the hips, notched back line, the thick neck supporting a head with a strongly projecting chin, the face is heart shaped with a rectangular mouth, a slender nose leading to high arched brows, bulging eyes, semi-spherical ears projecting outwardly, displaying linear scarification marks on the face and the torso, the head capped by a single crested coiffure with a braid in front of the face and further braid at the back of the head; reddish patina, partly shiny, the neck with insect damages, several cracks. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba.

Lit.: Burkhard Gottschalk: Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002; Kat. Ausst. Die Kunst der Senufo: Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, Staatliche Museen der Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, 16.11.1990 - 24.2.1991, Berlin 1990; Die Kunst der Senufo, Museum Rietberg Zürich, aus Schweizer Sammlung, Zürich 1988; Homberger Lorenz: Künstler in Werkstätten der Senufo. In: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zurüch 2014, p. 151-178; Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi: Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, Cleveland 2015.

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Height: 60 cm
Weight: 4.9 kg