Dogon Figure, Mali

Dogon Figure refers to the sculptural tradition of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, whose figurative carvings have been collected and sold through major international auction houses for over a century. These works, created by anonymous master carvers within the Dogon community, served ritual and ceremonial purposes connected to ancestor veneration and cosmological belief systems. Dogon sculpture is widely regarded as among the most significant and influential African art traditions, having profoundly impacted early 20th-century European modernism.