Figure Bateba / Lobi Burkina Faso 1st Half Of The 20th Century

Figure Bateba, presenting a standing male figure with a shaved head and symbolically disproportionate. The torso is swollen, its slender arms and projecting navel, its legs are of powerful proportions and the joints are angular. This small statuette is to be compared to the productions of the master sculptor, bald skulls. Old wood with honey patina, localized erosions of time, signs of use. Lobi Burkina Faso, first half of the 20th century Dimensions: 15.5 X 4.5 cm With base: 17 cm Provenance: former Dufourcq Bidau collection, after inheritance, sale, France Enchères, Montauban, March 31, 2001, number 169 of catalog. Pierre Dufourcq Bidau, a native of Béarn, a banker by profession, assembled his collection with the help of his friend Giovanni Franco Scanzi, author of the reference work devoted to the slingshot “Potomo Waka,” An article in the newspaper, Sud Ouest , of November 8, 1988, speaks of the collection of Monsieur Dufourcq Bidau, as the second largest collection of slingshots in the world after that of Scanzi. Sold with certificate of authenticity from expert Serge Reynes. * Shipping costs offered for France, other destinations on estimate.