A male Lobi figure, Burkina Faso, standing on wedge-like feet and slightly bent legs, the genitalia emphasized, a columnar torso, the elongated straight arms attached to the body, the cylindrical neck surmounted by an oval head with a heart-shaped fascial plane, a slightly forward-projecting lower jaw, a protruding mouth, a triangular nose framed by bulging eyes; heavy, hard wood, encrusted brown aged patina with traces of blood encrustations, several cracks.

Lit: Daniela Bognolo: Lobi. Visions of Africa, 2007 Milan; Floros & Sigrid Katsouros/Stephan und Petra Herkenhoff: Anonyme Schnitzer der Lobi, Hannover 2006; Piet Meyer: Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981; Galerie Flak: Magie Lobi, Paris 2003; Floros Katsouros: Lobi - Figuren, chefs d'oeuvre und Kultobjekte, Hannover 2013; Kat. Ausst.: Lobi. Westafrikanische Skulpturen aus der Sammlung Greschik, anlässlich der Ausstellung „Die Entdeckung des Individuums“, Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2016, Berlin 2016.

,300 - 400- Euro

Height: 85 cm
Weight: 4.7 kg