This is the rating and price for Mende Female Helmet Mask, 1980
Description : Mende Female Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone nòwo Wood, black pigment, raffia height of mask 16in (40.7cm) Provenance Frederick Lamp, acquired in Freetown, 1980 Published Fagg, William, Tribal Art Images, Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, fig. 46 (in situ) Frederick Lamp Archive Nòwo Workshop 54 (Yale University Art Gallery), characteristics are V-shaped face, and a narrow fourlobe coiffure, others by the same hand found in the collection of the University of the Witwatersrand (see Anita Nettleton, Hazel Friedman, Sandra Klopper, Elizabeth Schneider, Standard Bank Investment Corp. Ltd, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Catalogue, Standard Bank Foundation Collection of African Art (1979- 1986), University Art Galleries Collection of African Art and Selected Works from the University Ethnological Museum Collection, Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand, 1986), and the ex-collection of John Dintenfass, New York.
Price: 10 000.00 USDIt's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 8000 USD-12000 USDIt's free to register now to view!
About the lot N° 56 Title : Mende Female Helmet Mask, Period : 1980 Bonhams 2, auctioneer, Los Angeles, USIt's free to register now to view! Sale title : African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art Sale date : 23 May 2017It's free to register now to view! Sale Reference : Live Sale
