Description : Wood - 56 cm
Ivory Coast
Provenance American private collection Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 December 1969, Lot 13 Sotheby’s, New York, 15 November 2002, Lot 48 French private collection
Published L'art du continent noir: Témoins de la maîtrise des sculpteurs africains dans les collections privées, Volume 2, Burkhard Gottschalk, 2007, p. 213
Wanyugo, also know as Fire-spitter, Janus helmet mask with two large adorsed faces showing warthog tusks. Two chameleons holding a small ritual cup. Traces of pigments covered by a thick dusty patina. This mask represents a reference in its type. Published by Gottschalk, it has the power required to serve the wabele society in its intentions to detect and destroy the negative forces.
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n° 15 Titre : Senufo Mask, PÉRIODE : 2007
