Ɵ Hermaphrodite statue, representation of... - Lot 45 - Giquello

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Ɵ Hermaphrodite statue, representation of... - Lot 45 - Giquello
Ɵ Hermaphrodite statue, representation of an ancestor, Soninké Kagoro - Djennenké, western region of the Bandiagara plateau, Dogon country, Mali Second half of the 13th century CIRAM C14 test: 1259-1290 (probability 95.4%) Hardwood with oily patina, metal H. 35 cm Soninké Kagoro - Djennenke hermaphrodite figure, Dogon, Mali H. 13 4/5 in Provenance: - Hélène and Henri Kamer, most probably collected during their 1957 trip to Mali - European private collection - Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 28 - New York private collection Publication: - Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, The Tribal Arts of Africa. London, Thames and Hudson, 1998, p. 6 - Bernard de Grunne, Mains de Maîtres. A la découverte des sculpteurs d'Afrique, Brussels, Espace Culturel BBL, 2001, p. 51, n° 8 - Hélène Leloup, Dogon, Musée du Quai Branly, Editions Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, 2011, p. 351, n°10 Exhibition: - Mains de Maîtres. A la découverte des sculpteurs d'Afrique, Espace Culturel BBL, Brussels, 22 March - 24 June 2001 - Hélène Leloup, Dogon, Musée du Quai Branly, Editions Somogy Editions d'Art, Paris, from 5 April to 24 July 2011 - Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, 14 October 2011 - 22 January 2012 This pre-Dogon statue dates from our European Middle Ages, it is contemporary to the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral (12th-13th centuries). It is a work that is part of African history as much by its dating, its importance in the process of ancestral settlement, as by its aesthetic qualities. The first testimony of a Pre-Dogon sculpture, dated from the 10th century, is the figure with raised arms in the Dapper Museum (ex. Wunderman collection). This is a period when the Soninke, founders of the kingdom of Ghana, had already been established for several centuries. From the 11th-12th centuries it was also the foundation of a new empire in Mali by the Almoravids, which caused
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