About the lot N° 56
Title : AN IMPORTANT YAKA MASK, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Size : measurements note height 7 1/2 in. 19 cm Provenance : Collected in situ by Hans Himmelheber, 1930sThe Weyhe Gallery, New York, by 1940Chaim and Renee Gross, New York, acquired from the above in 1944Literature : The Weyhe Gallery (ed.), African Negro Art, New York, 1940, cat. 76The Brooklyn Museum of Art (ed.), Masterpieces of African Art, Brooklyn, 1954, cat. no. 191Margaret Plass, The African Image: A New Selection of Tribal Art, Toledo, 1959, p. 28, cat. 145Arnold Rubin, The Sculptor's Eye, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 72, cat. 61Sotheby's, auctioneer
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Sale title : The Sculptor's Eye: African and Oceanic Art from The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
Sale date : 15 May 2009
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Sale Reference : Live Sale
