Akua Foowaa
Acrylic on canvas 212 x 205 cm 2025
A female figure stands in the center of the canvas. She unwraps here blue and white striped cloth, casting it to the rocky ground of the cave she stands in. She is adorned with yellow waist beads and a gold pendant of a star under a moon. She carries a wooden doll on here back, held with ropes to her waist and chest. Her silhouette is set against a vibrant blue and white sky. The scene of this iconic painting by Kweku Okokroko, riddled with symbolism-rich motif, is from the Abrewa Posoposo epic. A literary work authored by Kweku Okokroko.
A detail in the painting of a similar akua-ba fertility figure carried on the back of the female figure in the painting.
A small Asante "Akua-ba" figure with a much larger presence, Ghana. Wood, glass beads. H 17 cm. W 7 cm. Provenance: - Timothy F. Garrard (1943-2007) - Christie's Paris, France. December 6, 2005, Lot 127. - Private collection, Western Switzerland. - Hammer Auktionen 152, lot 0033.