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MASQUE KARAN-WEMBA MOSSI

Lot 8
29.06.2022 18:00UTC +01:00
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€ 516 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 783385
Lot 8 | MASQUE KARAN-WEMBA MOSSI
Estimate value
€ 200 000 – 300 000
MASQUE KARAN-WEMBA MOSSI

PROVINCE DU YATENGA, BURKINA FASO

Hauteur : 87 cm. (34 1⁄4 in.)





Provenance

René Rasmussen (1911-1979), Paris

Loudmer-Poulain, Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 8 juin 1978, lot 300

Collection Thomas G.B. Wheelock (1941-2016), New York

Sotheby's, Paris, 15 juin 2011, lot 52

Importante collection privée princière



Literature

Roy, C., « Forme & signification des masques Mossi. Form & Meaning of Mossi Masks » in Arts d'Afrique Noire, n° 48, Arnouville, hiver 1983, p. 19, n° H.T. 2

Anderson, A. et Solomon, H., « Discovering a Culture » in Living with Art, New York, 1988, p. 118

Nooter, N. et Robbins, W., African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, 1989, p. 98, n° 118

Borgatti, J., Brilliant, R. et Wardwell, A., Likeness and Beyond. Portraits from Africa and the World, New York, 1990, p. 117, n° 46

Roy, C. et Wheelock, T., Land of the Flying Masks, Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection, Munich, 2007, n° 122

Roy, C., Mossi, Milan, 2015, p. 83, n° 18



Exhibited

New York, Center for African Art, Likeness and Beyond. Portraits from Africa and the World, 14 février - 12 août 1990

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Africa, The Art of a Continent. 100 Works of Power and Beauty, 7 juin - 29 septembre 1996



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MOSSI KARAN-WEMBA MASK, YATENGA PROVINCE, BURKINA FASO
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Burkina Faso, Africa
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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