Senufo : art et identité FIGS. 7a & b (left and below): Janus figure. Unidentified artist. Wood. H: 101 cm. Reported provenance: Gilbert Bochet, c. 1955 to 2002; Christie’s (Paris), 15 June 2002, lot 249. Private collection. Photos © 2002 Christie’s Images Limited (left) and © Hughes Dubois, Paris/Brussels (below). This sculpture appears in several photographs from the early 1950s attributed to Fr. Gabriel Clamens. A local leader identified as Nimbé Wana or Lessesié Coulibaly in Lataha, Côte d’Ivoire, reportedly offered this sculpture—exceptional for its combination of a figure pair—to colonial administrator Gilbert Bochet later in the decade (Gottschalk 2002: 63, 93; Christie’s 2002: 138–41, lot 249).
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