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Vue Rapide€2.600,00Masque heaume, à une seule face, taillée dans un bois très léger. Sur l’extrémité supérieure, est visible une crête.
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Vue Rapide€3.100,00The Ashantis are a West African population living in Ghana. They are part of the great group of Akans (the whole Akan world also extends to Ivory Coast where it includes interior or coastal ethnic groups) and are themselves subdivided into numerous subgroups. The Ashanti federation developed in the 13th century. The capital is Kumasi. In the 19th century, this civilization reached its peak and occupied almost 70% of present-day Ghana. The Ashanti community was the largest of all Akan states and the longest in time. Core of the Oyoko clan, Asantemanso remains their place of origin.The Ashanti were conquerors who divided up into groups and lived in small groups which formed vassal city-states of the Denkyira kingdom. The Oyoko will become dominant and impose themselves. Osei Tutu will be the first king to unify these groups. The empire was first continental then the year 1806 marks the beginning of the conquest of the coastal region. The English eventually annex Ghana. It will be the end of the Ashanti Empire.
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Vue Rapide€3.100,00The Ashantis are a West African population living in Ghana. They are part of the great group of Akans (the whole Akan world also extends to Ivory Coast where it includes interior or coastal ethnic groups) and are themselves subdivided into numerous subgroups. The Ashanti federation developed in the 13th century. The capital is Kumasi. In the 19th century, this civilization reached its peak and occupied almost 70% of present-day Ghana. The Ashanti community was the largest of all Akan states and the longest in time. Core of the Oyoko clan, Asantemanso remains their place of origin.The Ashanti were conquerors who divided up into groups and lived in small groups which formed vassal city-states of the Denkyira kingdom. The Oyoko will become dominant and impose themselves. Osei Tutu will be the first king to unify these groups. The empire was first continental then the year 1806 marks the beginning of the conquest of the coastal region. The English eventually annex Ghana. It will be the end of the Ashanti Empire.
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Vue Rapide€3.100,00The Ashantis are a West African population living in Ghana. They are part of the great group of Akans (the whole Akan world also extends to Ivory Coast where it includes interior or coastal ethnic groups) and are themselves subdivided into numerous subgroups. The Ashanti federation developed in the 13th century. The capital is Kumasi. In the 19th century, this civilization reached its peak and occupied almost 70% of present-day Ghana. The Ashanti community was the largest of all Akan states and the longest in time. Core of the Oyoko clan, Asantemanso remains their place of origin.The Ashanti were conquerors who divided up into groups and lived in small groups which formed vassal city-states of the Denkyira kingdom. The Oyoko will become dominant and impose themselves. Osei Tutu will be the first king to unify these groups. The empire was first continental then the year 1806 marks the beginning of the conquest of the coastal region. The English eventually annex Ghana. It will be the end of the Ashanti Empire.
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Vue Rapide€4.000,00
Ofo, Igbo, Nigeria
In a cult universe rich in an extraordinary quantity of objects, Ofos sculptures from Nigeria seem to be by far the most important. Presumably composed from simple fetish twigs from a sacred tree, the Ofos have thus evolved to become objects or masks with immediately identifiable forms for those who have seen them at least once. Thus their artistic form was it built from the use of wood and iron but it also adapted to the imagination of each sculptor, the expected use of the Ofo as well as its native territory . A head of heavy wood, a metallic aura gives a body without a limb a most mystical look for long Ofos as well as Ofos formalized by their only head.
The Ofo presented here comes in the form of a particularly thin and slender body compared to those that are more commonly encountered. It also has the rare characteristic of having a double face sculpted and decorated with metallic irons on both sides of the aura. It is thus “januiform”. A strong pigmentation visible on the entire sculpture suggests an intense use for this emblematic object of authority and power.
Literature: ” OFO Anam, Regards sur un statuary Igbo “, Alexandre Espenel and Rémy Houdart. Editions Rage, 2001.
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Vue Rapide€4.000,00
Ofo, Igbo, Nigeria
In a cult universe rich in an extraordinary quantity of objects, Ofos sculptures from Nigeria seem to be by far the most important. Presumably composed from simple fetish twigs from a sacred tree, the Ofos have thus evolved to become objects or masks with immediately identifiable forms for those who have seen them at least once. Thus their artistic form was it built from the use of wood and iron but it also adapted to the imagination of each sculptor, the expected use of the Ofo as well as its native territory . A head of heavy wood, a metallic aura gives a body without a limb a most mystical look for long Ofos as well as Ofos formalized by their only head.
The Ofo presented here comes in the form of a particularly thin and slender body compared to those that are more commonly encountered. It also has the rare characteristic of having a double face sculpted and decorated with metallic irons on both sides of the aura. It is thus “januiform”. A strong pigmentation visible on the entire sculpture suggests an intense use for this emblematic object of authority and power.
Literature: ” OFO Anam, Regards sur un statuary Igbo “, Alexandre Espenel and Rémy Houdart. Editions Rage, 2001.
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Vue Rapide€4.000,00
Ofo, Igbo, Nigeria
In a cult universe rich in an extraordinary quantity of objects, Ofos sculptures from Nigeria seem to be by far the most important. Presumably composed from simple fetish twigs from a sacred tree, the Ofos have thus evolved to become objects or masks with immediately identifiable forms for those who have seen them at least once. Thus their artistic form was it built from the use of wood and iron but it also adapted to the imagination of each sculptor, the expected use of the Ofo as well as its native territory . A head of heavy wood, a metallic aura gives a body without a limb a most mystical look for long Ofos as well as Ofos formalized by their only head.
The Ofo presented here comes in the form of a particularly thin and slender body compared to those that are more commonly encountered. It also has the rare characteristic of having a double face sculpted and decorated with metallic irons on both sides of the aura. It is thus “januiform”. A strong pigmentation visible on the entire sculpture suggests an intense use for this emblematic object of authority and power.
Literature: ” OFO Anam, Regards sur un statuary Igbo “, Alexandre Espenel and Rémy Houdart. Editions Rage, 2001.
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