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Lot 66*

SENUFO FEMALE FIGURE, IVORY COAST

Arts of Africa, the Pacific & the Americas
17 December 2024, 16:00 CET
Brussels, Chaussée de Charleroi

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SENUFO FEMALE FIGURE, IVORY COAST

wood
Height 71 cm

Provenance
Charles Ratton, Paris
Paolo Morigi, Lugano

Literature
Gottschalk, B., Sénoufo: Massa et les statues du poro, Dusseldorf, 2002, p.101

Footnotes

Gottschalk (op. cit., pp.100-101) writing about lot 66 states that the location where it was found is unknown. He says it served not as a guardian statue of the poro but rather it belonged to the female society of the tyekpa (found only in the central Senufo region) whose sculptures carry a bowl on their heads. With the arrival of the Massa cult in the 1940s existing statues such as this were planted in the still soft clay of the terrace walls of the Massa cult houses. As they were exposed to the elements there is wear to the bowl and buttocks. Traces of whitewash can be explained by the fact that during the construction of these cult houses, the exterior walls and terraces were whitewashed along with the figures. This figure would have been removed later to be sold, damaging its feet and the whitewash and original patina would have been removed. The stylised loincloth flanked by the downward pointing hands is a characteristic seen in other works which can be attributed to the same artist's hand.

This figure appeared on the art market in Paris in the mid 1950s. In 1952 Emil Storrer bought a second example by the same carver in Sekaha, a village not far from Sinématiali located in the Lataha region, showing almost identical signs of erosion and with the patina also removed by cleaning. He sold it to Josef Muller (Christie's, London, 13 June 1978, lot 33).

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