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Deux masques casques "gelede", Nigéria, Yoruba, Taille: H: 23 cm / 25,5 cm; L: 32 cm, ID: 3046541
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Lot 98
97e Vente aux enchères

Deux masques casques "gelede" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3046541

Vendu 2 900 €
Provenance
coll. in situ by unknown collector
Lempertz, Brussels, 5 April 2017, Lot 99
Walter Grasser, Munich, Germany

Description

wood, pigments, rest.

These two masks were collected in situ in a small town near the border with Benin. The masks were found lying unused in a separate hut. It is said that they had not been used for years and had been sold by the villagers in order to use the money to commission the carving of new masks.

Publications

AHDRC: 0140296 & 0140297

Afrique
Masques

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