Colone
Baule · Côte d’Ivoire
Reference: COL-48
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- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Colon with hairstyle and ethnic proportions. He wears a blackened short. Although these statuettes called "colonos" or "ripolin" because they are usually painted with a well-known…
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Full original description
Colon with hairstyle and ethnic proportions. He wears a blackened short. Although these statuettes called "colonos" or "ripolin" because they are usually painted with a well-known brand of paintings, they represent Europeans who pretend to satirize this figure represents an African, which is the least frequent case. Africans in the service of Europeans formed a class apart from which they also satirized in their performances.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Côte d’Ivoire. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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