About the lot N° 161
Title : BAMANA MASK, MALI |
Size : Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)
Provenance : Paul Guillaume, Paris
Earl Horter, Philadelphia, acquired from the above before 1930
Elizabeth Lentz Horter, Philadelphia, by descent from the above
Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 1985, lot 381, consigned by the estate of the above
Private American collection, acquired at the above auction
Literature : James Johnson Sweeney,
African Negro Art, New York, 1935, p. 32, cat. no. 32 (listed)
Lincoln Rothschild,
Sculpture Through the Ages, New York, 1942, pl. CXX
Paul Radin and James Johnson Sweeney,
African Folktales and Sculpture, New York, 1952, pl. 2
James Johnson Sweeney,
African Sculpture, Princeton, 1970, fig. 2
Innis Howe Shoemaker, Christa Clarke, and William Wierzbowski,
Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and his Collection, Philadelphia, 1999, p. 135, figs. 61-62, p. 137, figs. 63-65, p. 142, pl. 87, p. 175, fig. 85
