MALI

Details

TABOURET-AUTEL DOGON
DOGON STOOL
Mali
Hauteur: 27.3 cm. (10 ¾ in.)

Provenance

Henri Kamer et Hélène (Kamer) Leloup, New York et Paris
Celeste et Armand Bartos, New York, acquis auprès de ces derniers

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Further details

This stool-altar from the Bartos collection has four struts carved in high relief with alternating pairs of nommo figures in a very minimalist form, and long crocodiles. With the zigzag pattern of water, the figures and the crocodiles the image is a sort of Mobius band which constantly interrelates the themes of ancestry, water, fertility and life itself.

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Lot Essay

Ce tabouret-autel de la collection Bartos possède quatre supports sculptés en haut-relief, alternant entre des couples de personnages nommo, de style minimaliste, et de longs crocodiles. Avec les zigzags figurant l'eau, les personnages et les crocodiles, l'image fait penser à un ruban de Möbius qui inter-relierait constamment les thèmes de l'ascendance, de l'eau, de la fertilité et de la vie elle-même.

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