A Lobi standing figure by Lunkena Pale

A Lobi standing figure by Lunkena Pale

Gaoua, Burkina Faso

with bent knees and hands to the chest, and with a waistband of glass beads,

23cm high, on a base.

Provenance

Rene and Mercedes Lavigne Collection.

Christie's, London, African Art from the collection of Rene and Mercedes Lavigne, 24 March 1988, lot 87.

Exhibited

Zurich, 1981, no. 194.

Lunkena Pale of Gaoua was an apprentice of the master carver Sikire Kambire.