A Baule mask, Ivory Coast, of oval hollowed form, a stylized, protruding mouth, a slender, slightly curved nose with prominent nostrils, framed by oval eyes with white pigements, high arched brows, oval ears, scarification marks on the forehead, temples and at the corners of the mouth, pierced through at the rim for attachment, surmounted by an asymmetric headdress with a hemispherical knob on the left side of the mask; brown to blackened surface, partly glossy, traces of age and ritual use.

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.

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


Wolfgang Jaenicke, collected 2008.

600 - 800,- Euro

sold

Height: 26 cm
Weight: 410 g