Rare mask type with forehead scar "tohourou" · Côte d'Ivoire, Bété / Guro · ID: 3046204
sold
EUR 3,920
Provenance
Hendrik Elias (1925-2014), Wieze, Ghent, BelgiumLucien Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (1980)
Christie’s, London, 23 June 1986, Lot 36
Michael Oliver, New York City, USA
Philip Sanfield (1928-2008), Farmington Hills, USA (1990)
Sotheby’s, New York, 20 November 1990, Lot 74
Private Collection, California, USA
Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 2014, Lot 332
Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
wood, base
For a stylistically very similar mask see African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre, no. 0062551.
The object Rare mask type with forehead scar “tohourou” with the object ID 3046204 was last part of the auction 93rd Tribal Art Auction at November 16, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 127 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,920.
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Publications
de Buck, Jo, Hendrik Elias Legacy Archives, Brussels 2018, p. 53, ill. 9
AHDRC: 0062565