Anthropomorphic mask with janus-headed superstructure "okoroshi", Nigeria, Ibibio, Size: H: 51 cm (H: 20.1 inch), ID: 3043503

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Lot 276

88th Tribal Art Auction

Anthropomorphic mask with janus-headed superstructure "okoroshi" · Nigeria, Ibibio · ID: 3043503

sold EUR 2,000

Provenance

Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (1988)

Size

H: 51 cm

H: 20.1 inch

Description

wood, polychrome paint, dam., insect caused damage, paint rubbed off, base

Comparing literature

Cole, Herbert M. & Chike C. Aniakor, Igbo Arts, Los Angeles 1984, p. 200, ill. 313

Publications

Särnstedt, Bo et. al., Before Picasso, African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalch 1989, p. 100, ill. 274

AHDRC: 01309071

Exhibition

Before Picasso, African Art in Swedish Collections, Liljevalchs Konsthall, 2 December 1988 - 15 January 1989 & Humlebaek, Denmark, 1989, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, 1997

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