About the lot N° 157
Title : A Superb Baule Seated Female Figure, Ivory Coast
Size : measurements note height 14 1/2 in. 36.8 cm Provenance : Carlo Monzino, CastagnolaEuropean Private Collection, by descent from the aboveSotheby's, New York, May 19, 2001, lot 134Robert T. Wall Family, Telluride, acquired at the above auctionLiterature : Susan Vogel, African Aesthetics. The Carlo Monzino Collection, New York, 1986, p. 57, cat. 49 Ezio Bassani (ed.), La Grande Scultura dell'Africa Nera, Florence, 1989, cat. 50 Ezio Bassani (ed.), Le Grand Héritage. Sculptures de l'Afrique Noire, Paris, 1992, p. 156Notes : In his discussion of the offered lot in the catalogue for his important exhibition La Grande Scultura dell'Africa Nera, Ezio Bassani (1989: 241, text to cat. 50) points out how the artist of this superb figure masterfully merges a naturalistic, delicate rendering of the human body with expressionistic features as seen in the enlargement of the oval head. A major effort, he notes, was reserved to the rendering of the human form which, in the delicate fullness of forms and the elegant contorsions, reveals a cascade of music (translation by Sotheby's).Sotheby's, auctioneer, New York, US
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Sale title : African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art
Sale date : 15 May 2009
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