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168 - Philippe SENE (Senegal, Diouroup, 1949) Pangol, 1977 Tapestr…
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Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
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Philippe SENE (Senegal, Diouroup, 1949) Pangol, 1977 Tapestry in half-cross stitch or Gobelin stitch, using Colbert DMC wool, 117 x 87 cm Signed lower left Philippe Sene Mentioned on the back by the artist in 1977 Also included: Pangol, 1973. India ink on paper 35.4 x 25.2 cm Signed and dated lower left Philippe Sene 73. Cardboard used to make the tapestry, as published and reproduced in Éthiopiques. Revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie, (Dakar: Fondation Senghor), n°4 oct. 1975. *** Needlepoint tapestry (half-cross stitch and Gobelin stitch), Colbert DMC wool, signed lower left, 46⅛ × 34¼ in. Executed in 1977; together with: Pangol, 1973, India ink on paper, signed and dated lower left, 14 × 9⅞ in. Preparatory cartoon for the tapestry, published and reproduced in Éthiopiques. Revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie (Dakar: Fondation Senghor), no. 4, October 1975. Provenance Collection J. Lassaque, acquired directly from the artist in the 1990s. "Born in the Siné Saloum, in the heart of the Serer country - the same ancestral land as the poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor - Philippe Sène draws his inspiration from the cosmogony of his people: a way of thinking about the world inherited from a thousand-year-old migration from the Nile valley to the shores of Senegal, based on the belief in a Supreme Being and in the Pangools, these intermediary beings who watch over the living and inhabit the depths of the ocean off Sangomar. It is this network of relationships - between people, ancestors and the guardians of the sacred - that his work seeks to make visible, at a time when the rural exodus is gradually erasing these landmarks. His compositions are built around fluid, rhythmic arabesques: "To be successful, the composition must dance", he says, echoing the Serer dance as a pathway to trance and Knowledge. The colours, bold and unadorned, complement this balance - brown for permanence and the sacred, green for fertility, blue for the sea and hope. Trained in Dakar and active since the 1970s, his work combines modern plasticity with the transmission of a spirituality rarely represented in contemporary African art.
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