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Description : Ivory Coast, Bondoukou region Kulango-Lohron, mid-20th century or earlier Carved wooden statue with black glossy patina with red, blue and white accents, the face with serene expression Height: 92.5 cm. Provenance Nillson Djup, Sweden, private European collection Literature K-F Schaedler, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, Munich, 1994, pp 239-240 T.Philips, Africa, The Art of a Continent, London, 1999, p 448, no 5, p 112 A smaller standing female figure is illustrated in catalogue African faces, African figures - The Arman Collection, Museum for African Art, New York, 1997, no. 111 p. 62, p. 229-230 Kulango statuary is rare, and often presented as derived from and strongly influenced by Lobi art.

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