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Masque Île de Sio

Lot 78
06.03.2024 15:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1158348
Lot 78 | Masque Île de Sio
Estimate value
€ 60 000 – 80 000
Masque Île de Sio

Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

Hauteur : 48 cm. (18 7⁄8 in.)





Provenance

Collection Johann Stössel (1884-1972), acquis avant 1924

Société des amis du Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, acquis le 1er mai 1925

Collection Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Cologne, acquis auprès de ce dernier le 1er mai 1925 (inv. n° 37803 ou 10544)

Robert L. Stolper, New-York, acquis le 30 mai 1967

John J. Klejman (1906-1995), New York Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en 1973 (inv. n° 4111)



Literature

Kaufmann, C., Masques d’Océanie. Introduction à l’art de la Mélanésie, Genève, 1985, p. 14, n° 9

Newton, D. et Waterfield, H., Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller/Tribal Sculpture. Masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1995, p. 282

Newton, D., Arts des mers du sud. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of the South Seas. Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 1998, p. 210, n° 8

Boyer, A.-M., Butor, M. et Morin, F., L’homme et ses masques. Chefs-d’œuvre des musées Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2005, pp. 268-269, 358 et 359, n° 99

Peltier, P. et al., Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller/Shadows of New Guinea. Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections, Paris, 2006, pp. 153 et 416, n° 77

Alleva, A. d’ et al., Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller/Arts of Africa and Oceania. Highlights from the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2007, pp. 290-291 et 392

Moos, P., « Afrique et Océanie. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller/ Africa and Oceania. Masterpieces of the Musée Barbier-Mueller », in Tribal Art Magazine, Arquennes, printemps 2008, n° 20, p. 62, n° 9

Kwahulé, K., Orsenna, E. et Schmitt, E.-E., Masques à démasquer, Genève, 2012, pp.222-223, 262 et 263, n° 98

Levy, A. et Ouvrier, Z., Pensées invisibles. Invisible Thoughts, Genève, 2023, pp. 20 et 144, n° 57



Exhibited

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Masques d’Océanie. Introduction à l’art de la Mélanésie, 1er avril 1985

Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, 3 octobre - 25 novembre 2006

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Masques à démasquer, 21 février - 16 septembre 2012

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Pensées invisibles, 9 novembre 2022 - 3 septembre 2023



Further details

Mask, Sio Island, Papua New Guinea
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Papua New Guinea
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