An ancient female wakasona statuette in a very beautiful old style, bearing numerous scarifications, notably on the face and around the neck, the head making a subtle movement to the left, the eyebrow arches open into two very beautiful arcs of a circle rising in the continuity of the straight, slightly concave nose, with its almost disdainful pout. This very old Baule sculpture is probably from the very first generation of works in this style, which constitute a very characteristic corpus, and whose workshop set the standard. Baule, Ivory Coast Wood, old cracks, minor accidents, very fine old oxidation of the wood, very fine old patina. H. 38.5 cm Provenance : Charles Ratton, Paris, according to family tradition Private collection, Brussels