Lot n° 81
Estimation :
1200 - 2000
EUR
Result without fees
Result
: 40EUR
Important female fetish standing with legs apart, arms sligh - Lot 81
Important female fetish standing with legs apart, arms slightly apart and raised, chest clearly marked. The whole denoting a rather aggressive position. The rather naturalistic head has a face marked by a long straight nose, framed by large almond-shaped eyes. Open mouth, grooved cap. A scarification bars the face transversally at the level of the nose. Above the basin, the entire statue, including the head, is enclosed in a mesh of cotton thread, attached by wrought-iron blades planted in the wood of the sculpture. Semi-hard wood, with a thick grey sacrificial patina, crusty, remnants of feathers.
BOBO people, Burkina Faso.
20th century.
Bibliography: " Un voyage en Haute-Volta " by Raoul Lehuard in the magazine " Art d'Afrique Noire ", n°32, 1979.
Stylistically close to the arts of Upper Volta (Bobo, Mossi), this type of very unusual object is difficult to identify. It would have been acquired in a Loudmer sale before 1974.