A male Baule sculpture, from the region Arrah/Bongouanou, village Arrah, Ivory Coast, standing on strong bent legs ending in prominent buttocks, accentuated genitals, a slender torso with a pointed navel, rounded shoulders leading to bent arms touching the braided goatee, the elongated neck supporting an oval head, a mouth with full lips beneath a slightly curved nose with a broad tip, almond-shaped eyes, the eyelids half closed, a high forehead, scarification marks above the bridge of the nose, on the temples and on the neck, hemispherical ears with a prominent tragus, the head surmounted by a domed accurately striated coiffure; encrusted brown patina showing traces of age and ritual use, several cracks. Provenance Mohamed Belo Garba, Korhogo, Ivory Coast, Korhogo, Ivory Coast.

Lit.: Susan M. Vogel: Baule: African Art Western Eye, 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; Alain-Michel Boyer: Baule. Visions of Africa, Milan 2008.

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Height: 65.5 cm
Weight: 1.7 kg