A female Senufo sculpture, Ivory Coast, uprising from a cylindrical base with a groove, the shortened legs without feet, protruding buttocks, the slender torso with a slightly arched belly and a pointed navel, sagging breasts, the shoulders sloping, armlets and bracelets on both arms, the hands resting on the tighs, a thin columnar neck supports an oval head, a small mouth beneath a nose with a broad tip, round protruding eyes with wide brows, an Iroquoise-like hairstyle with knots and a braid in the neck and one on each side; the figure is characterized by an old touch patina, which suggests a longlasting ritual use, some small age cracks. Certificate of origin and provenance. 

Lit.: Burkhard Gottschalk, Kunst aus Schwarz Afrika, Senufo, Unbekannte Schätze aus privaten Sammlungen, S.173, 174, Glaze Anita J., "Art and Death in a Senufo Village", Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1981. Lit.: Kat. Ausst. Die Kunst der Senufo, Elfenbeinküste. Mit einem Beitrag von Till Förster, Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin 1990. Burkhard Gottschalk, Senufo. Massa und die Statuen des Poro, Düsseldorf 2002. Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Senufo unbound. Dynamics of art and identity in West Africa, 2015. Till Förster, Smoothing the Way of the Dead, A Senufo Rhythm Pounder, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005).

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Height: 48 cm
Weight: 1 kg