A Baule mask, Ivory Coast, of oval hollowed form, the chin with a pointed goatee beneath a stylized, small protruding mouth, a slender nose with prominent nostrils, elaborated heavy lidded eyes, grooves around them, surmounted by arched eyebrows, hemispherical ears, scarification marks on the forehead, temples, cheeks, above the bridge of the nose and at the corners of the mouth, the outline of the mask is surrounted by a carved zigzag line, pierced through at the rim for attachment, surmounted by an asymmetric headdress; brown to reddish surface, traces of age and ritual use, provenance Amadou Bouaflé.

Amadou Bouaflé, during his performance on 30.12.2019 in his house in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Sotheby's, New York, 4 mai 1995, lot 52, collected before 1950 by Emil Storrer (1917-1989).

 
Wolfgang Jaenicke, collected 2008.

Lit.: Susan M. Vogel (Hrsg.): Baule: African Art Western Eyes, p. 142f; Bernard de Grunne: Über den Baule-Stil und seine Meister. In: Eberhard Fischer/Lorenz Homberger: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste,Zurüch 2014, p. 81-106.

Height: 58 cm
Weight: 1,4 kg