Baule Standing Female Figure

Description:

Baule Standing Female Figure, standing on a rounded base, wide, heavy bent legs supporting a thick elongated torso with bent arms carved into the sides, hands holding the protruding stomach, pointed breasts below an elongated neck, above a slightly downturned oval face which has protruding lips, and half-closed eyes with a complex incised crested coiffure, decorated at the torso, back, neck, and face with raised scarification, an overall rich brown patina, ht. 18 in.

Provenance: Rene Rasmussen, Paris, France, purchased in the mid-1960s.
Estimate $20,000-30,000

With a long age crack running down the back and right side of the head.


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