Lobi statue, Burkina Faso Wood H. 67 cm Remarkable... - Lot 22 - Giquello

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Lobi statue, Burkina Faso Wood H. 67 cm Remarkable... - Lot 22 - Giquello
Lobi statue, Burkina Faso Wood H. 67 cm Remarkable statue representing a female figure with a gravid belly, a protruding navel, powerful breasts, arms along the body, hands meeting under the belly. The whole sculpture is treated with an amazing mastery and inventiveness. Each detail of the body - the belly, the breasts, the spine, the clavicles, etc. - gives rise to remarkable plastic inventions. - gives rise to remarkable plastic inventions, in a very affirmed cubist style. The head is treated in a particularly vigorous way, the strong prognathism of the jaw accentuating the severe and introspective aspect of the face. Provenance : - Marc de Monbrison (Paris) - Patrick Girard (Lyon), in 1981 - Private collection (Denmark) - Sotheby's (New York), Nov. 14, 1995, no. 104 - Private collection (USA) - Christie's (Paris), 3 December 2020,
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