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Description : Makonde Mask, Mozambique lipiko Wood, beeswax, natural pigment Height 10 3/4in (28cm) Provenance Jonathan and Eve Lowen Collection, London Robert and Helen Kuhn Collection, Los Angeles New York Private Collection Published Cole, Herbert, I am not myself: The art of African masquerade, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985, fig. 82. Robbins, Warren and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1989, fig. 1353 Exhibited Mission Viejo, California, The Saddleback College Art Gallery, 1985; Santa Barbara, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1985; Los Angeles, The Museum of Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985, I am not Myself: The art of African masquerade New York, The Museum for African Art, Exhibition-ism: Artists and Ancestors in African Art, 14 October 1995 - 5 March 1995 In a letter from William Fagg, Fagg comments, 'This very fine and rare mask is one of the very best known to me, only being exceeded in importance by certain famous masks in the German museums from the period before the First World War. It is one of the very few which still have the full scarification.'
Price: 10 837.50 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 8000 USD-12000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 66
Title : Makonde Mask, Mozambique
Medium : Wood, beeswax, natural pigment
Condition report : Old losses around rim; eroded through at lower left cheek and underneath right eye; nicks, scratches and abrasions throughout. Custom mount.
Bonhams, auctioneer, New York, NY 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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