Imposing helmet mask with fine equestrian figure · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Blesseque village · ID: 3046739
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany (coll. in situ,1970, in Blesseque village, Northern Ivory Coast)Galerie Fred & Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
German Private Collection (1983)
Lempertz, Brussels, 22 January 2013, Lot 139
Size
H: 86,5 cm
H: 34.1 inch
Description
wood, remains of polychrome paint, breakage/ various native repairs (metal sheet, nails)
A comparable helmet mask with equestrian figure and rhombic decor from the Helena Rubinstein Collection illustrated in Gagliardi (2015), ill. 59.
Comparing literature
Gagliardi, Susan, Senufo, New York 2015, ill. 58 & 59
Publications
"Afrika", Galerie Springhornhof - Falazik, Wallau 1970, ill. 15; "Senufo, Kultobjekte aus dem Zentralgebiet in der nördlichen Elfenbeinküste", Galerie Fred & Jens Jahn, Munich 1983, ill. 3Exhibition
Neuenkirchen/ Soltau, Galerie Springhornhof - Falazik, "Afrika", 14 February - 9 April 1970; Munich, Galerie Fred & Jens Jahn: "Senufo, Kultobjekte aus dem Zentralgebiet in der nördlichen Elfenbeinküste", 13 July - 6 August 1983