Dogon figure

Africa | Mali

Dogon figure

Mali

N’Duleri Style

19th century or earlier
Carved wood
Height: 49 cm – 19 ¼ in.

Provenance
Ex private collection, New York
Ex Sotheby’s New York, African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, 12 May 2005, lot 31
Ex collection Marc-Yves Blanpain, Belgium

Exhibition & Publication
“Rêves de beauté : Sculptures africaines de la collection Blanpain”, Bernard de Grunne, Banque Générale du Luxembourg, 25 Oct. – 2 Dec. 2005, cat. 20

Nduleri figure 49 cm / Galerie FLAK Price: on request
The most elegant and refined Dogon style originated in the center and to the north of the Bandiagara Plateau in the region of the Ndule River, or n'duleri [ri = country of]. The N'duleri Style is closely linked with the art of the ancient Djenne empire (Djennenke, aka Soninke) and presumably is a direct result of the Songhay invasion in the 15th century and the ensuing Djennenke diaspora.
Hélène Leloup notes in "Dogon Statuary" Ed. Amez 1994 that this style, which seems to have reached its peak in the 18th century, is "a condensation of the classical art of the north - realism and force - with a suppleness, an elegance, not found elsewhere, completely opposed to the [Dogon] sculpture on the southern cliff, which is very constructed, cubist, abstract."
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