Zemanek-Münster

Rare mask type with forehead scar "tohourou"

Côte d'Ivoire, Bété / Guro
sold EUR 3,920
Provenance
Hendrik Elias (1925-2014), Wieze, Ghent, Belgium
Lucien 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.


Publications

de Buck, Jo, Hendrik Elias Legacy Archives, Brussels 2018, p. 53, ill. 9

AHDRC: 0062565


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