An interesting male Baule sculpture standing on a small base with two grooves, the muscular legs slightly bent, the elongated torso and neck decorated with scarification, the hands elegantly clasped behind the back with the shoulder blades protruding, a long neck with indicated Adam's apple, a heart-shaped face, the full lips slightly open, the concave nose is long and narrow with a broad tip, the large round eyes give the face an astonished expression, above the forehead runs a braided band at one end of which is a nodule above the ear, at the back of the head the coiffure is circular and decorated with geometrical patterns; a beautiful dark brown partially shiny patina.

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; Alain-Michel Boyer: Baule. Visions of Africa, Milan 2008.

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Height: 30 cm (without stand)
Weight: 900 g (incl. stand)