ID 1158267
Lot 44 | Masque Hemba
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
République démocratique du Congo
Hauteur : 23 cm. (9 in.)
Provenance
Probablement Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris
Morris Pinto (1925-2009), Genève
Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en juillet 1979 (inv. n° 1025-7)
Literature
Fagg, W., Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, Paris, 1980, p. 145
Hahner-Herzog, I. et al., L’autre visage. Masques africains de la collection Barbier-Mueller/African Masks. The Barbier-Mueller Collection/Das zweite Gesicht. Afrikanische Masken aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Munich, 1997, pp. 221 et 275, pl. 92, n° 229
Kwahulé, K., Orsenna, E. et Schmitt, E.-E., Masques à démasquer, Genève, 2012, pp. 134 et 135, n° 54
Barley, N., « Oscar Wilde et la pensée sauvage/Wilde Goose Chase », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2021, n° 22, p. 191, n° 6 Petridis, C. et al., The Language of Beauty in African Art, New Haven, 2022, pp. 266 et 329, n° 238
Exhibited
Soleure, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, 1er janvier - 31 décembre 1980
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Das zweite Gesicht. Afrikanische Masken aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller/L’autre visage. Masques africains de la collection Barbier-Mueller, 7 février - 24 avril 1997 ; Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 15 mai - 3 août 1997 ; Luxembourg, Banque générale du Luxembourg, 15 septembre - 23 novembre 1997 ; Tervuren, Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, 29 mai - 13 septembre 1998 ; Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, 21 septembre - 28 octobre 1999
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Masques à démasquer, 21 février - 16 septembre 2012
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts lointains si proches dans le regard de Silvia Bächli, 20 mars - 28 octobre 2018
Further details
Hemba mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Medium: | Wood |
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Place of origin: | Africa |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Wood |
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Place of origin: | Africa |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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