Anthropomorphic face mask "idiok ekpo" · Nigeria, Ibibio · ID: 3044268
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Provenance
Max Willborg, London, Great Britain / Stockholm, SwedenChristie’s, London, 26 April 1977, lot 181
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden
Size
H: 30 cm
H: 11.8 inch
Description
wood, with articulated lower jaw (attachment renewed), base
For a work made by the same artist see Paudrat, J. L. et al., Fragments du Vivant: Sculptures africaines dans la collection Durand-Dessert, Paris, 2008, no 212
The object Anthropomorphic face mask “idiok ekpo” with the object ID 3044268 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 270.
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Comparing literature
Cole, Herbert M., Invention and Tradition, Munich, London, New York 2012, p. 75 f.
Publications
AHDRC: 0153688