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Colon Figurine - Baule - Ivory Coast 
Provenance: private collection, France. 
Dimensions: 45 x 15 cm.
Material: wood. 

We can collect the “colons” in different ways, depending on one’s taste and means.  A collector of contemporary art will not be interested in the same colons as a collector of African tribal or traditional art.  We can distinguish five types of collectors of colons: the purists, the aesthetes, the anecdotal, the exclusive and the anthropologists.  This attests of the great diversity and of the different ways to collect Baule colons. 

The aesthetic of this sculpture refers to beauty canons commonly accepted by the Baule, barefoot, rounded calves, a little short, a headgear.  The quality of the sculpture, as well as the attributes vary depending on the sculptor’s talent, however, he will strictly follow the instructions of the soothsayer. 

Figurines of this sort are not recent.  They have appeared with colonisation, which explains their name, and unlike what can be said here and there, these were not destined to mock the white man, “but participate in various ways in the different animist cults”. 

Before 1983, colons were not collected.  Only a few amateurs, specialists of Africa, would know these figurines and appreciated it as a curiosity, a marginal and anecdotal piece.  The “colon” only appeared on the market in 1983, brought forward by the auctions at Drouot and Christie’s, during which these objects of cult, that became pieces of collection, have sometimes reached important prices, depending on the refinement of the craftsmanship, creating references, quoted values and a market. 

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Tags: mask, figurine, sculpture, figure, statuette, wood, art, contemporary, first, primitive, tribal, African, antiquity, artwork, gallery, Picasso, Giacometti, Africa, iron, art gallery, African art, cubism.

1st half 20th century - Vintage - used with visible signs of wear 

Colon statue - Côte d'Ivoire 

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