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Description : Bamana Mask, Mali kono Wood with light brown encrusted patina Length 45in (114.5cm) Provenance Marshall Mount, acquired in Bamako in the mid-1970s Marshall and Caroline Mount Collection, Jersey City, New Jersey Published Colleyn, Jean-Paul (ed.), The Art of Existence in Mali, New York, Zurich, Gent, Museum for African Art/Museum Rietberg/Snoeck-Ducaju, 2001, p. 187, fig. 167 Exhibited African Art from New Jersey Collections, January – April 1983, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; 13 September 2001 - 19 May 2002, Museum for African Art, New York; 28 February - 11 May 2003, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, July 2003, NSU Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, According Jean-Paul Colleyn (Ibid., p. 188), 'The Kono masks are the largest, the most stylized, and the barest of the horizontal masks. This mask's form is very simple and it seems naked compared to the Komo, covered as it is with horns, claws, teeth and feathers. The wood mask has no horns, but does have large ears. Again differing from the Komo, the eyes are marked, though this is only apparent when the mask bows his head. Covered with a crust proper to the boliw, the Kono masks are nonetheless periodically washed and bleached with kaolin.'
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About the lot N° 45
Title : Bamana Mask, Mali
Medium : Wood with light brown encrusted patina
Condition report : Old losses to top of right ear and to lower half of mouth at tip; cracqueleur to surface overall; minor losses and abrasions to edges throughout. Custom wall mount.
Bonhams, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : African & Oceanic Art
Sale date : 10 Nov 2022 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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