A Baule standing figure

A Baule standing figure

Ivory Coast

with a fine crescent shape coiffure, having a metal staple at the top of the forehead, with white pigment to the eyes and mouth, fine scarifications to the face and neck, the wide arched shoulders to bent arms with cupped hands, wearing a fibre and glass bead band, the sole of the left foot with white collection number 64 and a handwritten label ElfenQein Kunste...,

48cm high, on a base. (2)

Provenance

Romy Rey Collection, London.