About the lot N° 62
Title : LULUWA HELMET MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Provenance : Merton D. Simpson, New YorkWerner Muensterberger, New York, acquired from the above in June/July 1959Literature : Warren M. Robbins and Nancy I. Nooter, African Art in American Collections. Survey 1989, Washington/London, 1989, p. 437, fig. 1130Constantine Petridis, Context en Morfologie van de Plastische Kunst bij de Luluwa (Zuid-Centraal Zaïre) [Context and Morphology of Luluwa Sculpture (South-Central Zaire)], unpublished dissertation Ghent University, 1997, cat. 301Jean-Baptiste Bacquart, The Tribal Arts of Africa, London, 1998, p. 183, fig. CGeorge Nelson Preston, African Art Masterpieces, New York, 1991, p. 97, pl. 39George Nelson Preston, "Dr. Werner Muensterberger", Tribal Arts Magazine, No. 39, Autumn/Winter 2005, p. 119, fig. 8Lisa Zeitz, "Eine Sammlung ist nie eine glueckliche Liebe: Das bewegte Leben des Werner Muensterberger", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 12, 2006Constantine Petridis, Luluwa, Mercatorfonds: Brussels, 2013 (forthcoming)Sotheby's, auctioneer
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Sale title : Masterpieces of African Art from the Collection of the Late Werner Muensterberger
Sale date : 11 May 2012
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Sale Reference : Live Sale
