Old Baule carving ex Rabut collection
A Wenge wood Baule spirit spouse collected in the early 40's- Blolo
Bla from the well known Paul Rabut collection , with a hands to the belly, an
enlarged head with sensitive expression and a tripartite coiffure. Wearing
a tooth and glass beads necklace and beaded anklet .
The figure has wonderful old patina.
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- ex Paul Rabut Collection, USA
-ex Chris Wild, France Normandy
- ex Tookalook
collection , Canada ( who own the copyright on the pictures on this page)
Ca. earlier 1920-40's
15" 3/4 inch , 40 cm
Material: made in the quite seldom Wenge wood. Beads and small animal tooth,
scarifications in the neck., 3 etiquettes with numbers under the base, probably
from previous collectors and/or auction houses :
The provenance of this fine Baule figure with some fine carvings (look at
details of the mouth, and hands) is ex Paul Rabut collection, there was an
article about him few years ago in tribal
arts magazine (click blue link to subscribe)
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Winter 2003
- The mysterious world of Paul Rabut by Charles Derby ( if you need
this article it can be bought at cmg
)
in this article I discovered that Paul Rabut did his first acquisition in
1945, an that many of his pieces came from Dr.Harley and had the luck to be
be in New York (where he worked as an illustrator) during the 50's and had
contacts with all the big names in the African Art world in that time.
in Tribal arts
magazine winter 2003
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(this description below is taken from the Who is
Who in African Art)
Rabut,
Paul (1914-1983) & Peggy
Coll. Westport-Connecticut, illustrator & designer by profession. African,
Oceanic & American
Northwest
Coast
Art. Paul purchased his first piece of art, a Northwest Coast Shaman's rattle,
at an antique shop in N.Y.C. in the mid-1940s. Objects in expo & cat.:
"Masterpieces of African Art." The
Brooklyn
Museum
,
New York
21 October, 1954 - 2 January, 1955.
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