A female Baule sculpture, Ivory Coast, seated on a three-legged stool, muscular legs leading to rounded hips, around the hips four strings with white beads, the torso with a protruding navel, very pointed breasts and square shoulders, the hands touch the abdomen, a cylindrical neck supporting an oval head, a small mouth beneath a slim nose framed by large, half-closed eyes, bordered all around, the whole figure is covered with scarification patterns of varied geometric motifs, capped by a sophisticated striated coiffure; brown patina, traces of age and ritual use. Certificate of authenticity and provenance.

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.

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Height: 56 cm
Weight: 2,3 kg