細節
BAULE ZOOMORPHIC SEAT, ULIMBI BIA, IVORY COAST
Length: 44½ in. (113 cm.)
來源
Pierre Robin, Paris
Galerie Varnier, Paris
Urs Albrecht, Basel, 1994
Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland, 1994
展覽
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Animal, 11 December 2004-26 February 2005, illustrated in the catalogue
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Please note that this lot will now be offered not subject to a reserve.

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See Barbier (1993, ill.236) for a related seat. In this book, Alain-Michel Boyer explains that this type of stool represents a highly important insigna of power. It is interesting to note the great balance of the seat as well as the allegory of power and submission emanating from the animal.

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