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THBEarly 20th C. Dogon Wood Figure
Lot 65
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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West Africa, Central Mali, Dogon peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden abstract anthropomorphic male form shown standing with his short legs spread apart and hands placed on his wide hips. The stylized figure presents square shoulders, a slender midsection, and attenuated arms that lay parallel to his body. His hemispherical head features a minimalistic visage comprised of a heavy, straight brow, a pointed nose, and an open mouth. Size: 2.5" W x 10.375" H (6.4 cm x 26.4 cm); 11.875" H (30.2 cm) on included custom stand.
According to Giulia Paoletti, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Europeans first became aware of the existence of this culture in 1903. That year the French Lieutenant Louis Desplagnes traveled to Mali, to the high cliffs of Bandiagara 300 meters above the plains, where the Dogon people lived. Desplagnes interviewed members of the Dogon community who indicated some funerary caves that were used by the 'Tellem,' a local term that translates as 'we have found them.' According to oral accounts collected by Desplagnes and later confirmed in 1933 by anthropologist Marcel Griaule during his Dakar-Djibouti expedition, the Dogon had arrived at the Bandiagara escarpment in the fifteenth century and found the Tellem population living there. The two populations lived in the same area for about a century until the Tellem disappeared for unknown reasons." (Giulia Paoletti, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art website)
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-artist Harry Bertschmann collection, New York City, New York, USA
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#162171Repaired at ankles. A few stable fissures to midsection and hairline fissures to head and base. Otherwise, excellent with nice patina.Condition
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