A very important Fang 'Elephant mask'. Central Ogooue, Woleu-Ntem, Gabon. Early 20th Century.
A very important Fang 'Elephant mask'. Central Ogooue, Woleu-Ntem, Gabon. Early 20th Century.
Wood, 51 cm. There are but a few masks in public collections attributed to this small workshop of large elephantlike masks. Each with a large bladelike nose, continuing in forward and overhanging eyebrows. Each has bulbous eyes, a small protruding mouth and bright red, black and white polychrome, half-moon ears and a large flat forehead. The great cubistic features of these masks were probably the reason we can find one in the early collection of Pablo Picasso.
Provenance
Kegel Konietzko Hamburg. Important Belgian private collection. Yale Van Rijn documentation GvR nr.0128835. Cfr. Four others are known in museum collections: = Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Inv. nr. 1991.1067 = Musée Dapper, Paris, Inv. nr.2242 = Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève Inv. nr. 1019-20 = Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich Inv. nr.654Ör45.
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
21.06.2018 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 6,250.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 6,000.- to EUR 8,000.-
A very important Fang 'Elephant mask'. Central Ogooue, Woleu-Ntem, Gabon. Early 20th Century.
Wood, 51 cm. There are but a few masks in public collections attributed to this small workshop of large elephantlike masks. Each with a large bladelike nose, continuing in forward and overhanging eyebrows. Each has bulbous eyes, a small protruding mouth and bright red, black and white polychrome, half-moon ears and a large flat forehead. The great cubistic features of these masks were probably the reason we can find one in the early collection of Pablo Picasso.
Provenance
Kegel Konietzko Hamburg. Important Belgian private collection. Yale Van Rijn documentation GvR nr.0128835. Cfr. Four others are known in museum collections: = Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Inv. nr. 1991.1067 = Musée Dapper, Paris, Inv. nr.2242 = Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève Inv. nr. 1019-20 = Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich Inv. nr.654Ör45.
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 21.06.2018 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 16.06. - 21.06.2018 |
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