A Baule mask, Bouaké, Sakassou village, Ivory Coast, of oval elongated facial form, diamond-shaped mouth underneath a long nose with prominent nostrils merging into high arching patterned eyebrows and nose joined in the middle by small scarification marks, pierced crescent-shaped eyes, scarification marks at the corners of the mouth, temples and forehead, grooved hair structure, a surrounding carved zigzag ornament in front of the attachment rim; dark patina, traces of age and ritual use. Provenance: Mr. Cabinet

Lit: Susan M. Vogel: Baule: African Art Western Eye, 1997; Bernard de Grunne: Über den Baule-Stil und seine Meister. In: Eberhard Fischer/Lorenz Homberger: African Masters. Art of the Ivory Coast, Zurüch 2014, pp. 81-106; Alain-Michel Boyer: Baule. Visions of Africa, Milan 2008.

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Height: 45 cm
Weight: 1,8 kg