Female face mask "okuyi" or "mukudji" · Gabon, Shira-Punu · ID: 3045641
sold
EUR 1,200
Provenance
René Salanon, Paris, FranceGuy Montbarbon, Paris, France (1969)
Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn Switzerland
René Rickli, Olten, Switzerland
Size
H: 27 cm
H: 10.6 inch
Description
wood, colored, missing parts (right ear)
The object Female face mask “okuyi” or “mukudji” with the object ID 3045641 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 99 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.
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Expertise
Guy Montbarbon, Paris, 3rd April 1969
Comparing literature
Siroto, Leon, East of the Atlantic West of the Congo, San Francisco 1995, p. 37, ill. 25
Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrika, Maske und Skulptur, Olten 1989, ill. 64