Description : Standing figure Dogon, Mali light brown wood, middle brown partly shiny patina, rising from shortened legs with bulky thighs, a long cylindrical torso with a protruding navel and angular shoulders merging into long free worked arms, the big hands are resting on the hips, a columnar neck is surmounted by an oval head with a broad chin, beneath a slightly bulging forehead with a headband there are circular protruding eyes flanking a bulky nose, an oval mouth and a chin-beard underneath, netlike raised scarification marks on the temples, min. dam., small missing parts (feet, beard), insect caused damage, cracks, on wooden base, according to Ezra the Dogon place their figures on a number of altars devoted to real or mythological ancestors. But only few of this altars could be explored or pictured en detail, nor are there informations how to identify the depicted. H: 43,5 cm, (4661/002)
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About the lot N° 195 Title : Standing Figure Dogon Provenance : Provenance Private Collection, Los Angeles, USA Notes : Literature Hélene, Leloup, Dogon Statuary, Strassburg 1994, pl. 18 Laude, Jean, African Art of the Dogon, New York 1973, ill. 63 Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Museum Rietberg Zürich 1995, p. 49 Condition report : min. dam., small missing parts (feet, beard), insect caused damage, cracks Zemanek-Muenster, auctioneer, Würzburg, DEIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : 53rd Tribal Art auction Sale date : 01 Mar 2008It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale