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Masque kifwébé Songyé

Lot 25
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Lot 25 | Masque kifwébé Songyé
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€ 100 000 – 150 000
Masque kifwébé Songyé

République démocratique du Congo

Hauteur : 32.2 cm. (12 5⁄8 in.)





Provenance

Collection Laurie L. (1920-1994) et Hilbert H. (1920-1999) DeLawter, Bloomfield Hills, acquis avant 1967

Christie's, New York, 14 juin 1979, lot 435

Christie's, New York, 7 mai 1980, lot 67

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève (inv. n° 1026-110)



Literature

Sieber, R., African Sculpture from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Hilbert H. DeLawter, Bloomfield Hills, 1967, plat recto, n° 49

Hodge, S., The Art of Black Africa. A Survey of Traditional African Sculpture Organized by the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, 1970, n° 135

Fagg, W., Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, Paris, 1980, p. 142

Lehuard, R., « Les expositions », in Arts d'Afrique Noire, Arnouville, printemps 1981, n° 37, p. 35

Hersak, D., Songye masks and figure sculpture, Londres, 1986, p. 61

Schmalenbach, W. et al., Arts de l’Afrique noire dans la collection Barbier-Mueller/Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf, Munich, 1988, p. 265, n° 171

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. 178

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. 212-213 et 275, pl. 88, n° 224

Geoffroy-Schneiter, B., Arts premiers/Tribal Art. Africa, Oceania, Southeast Asia, Paris, 1999, pp. 104 et 106

Abramovic, N. et Hahner-Herzog, I., Afrika. Afrikanische Skulptur aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Ulm, 2000, p. 96, n° 48

Hersak, D., « Popularité et puissance de la créativité songye/On the Popular and Powerful in Songye Creativity », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2003, n° 4, p. 134, n° 19

Petridis, C., « Au-delà du Kifwebe. Masques attribués aux Songye-Tempa et aux Tetela-Sungu/Beyond Kifwebe. Masks Attributed to the Songye-Tempa and Tetela-Sung », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2021, n° 22, p. 102, n° 1



Exhibited

Bloomfield Hills, CAA - Cranbrook Academy of Art, African Sculpture from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Hilbert H. DeLawter, 9 avril - 7 mai 1967

Flint, Flint Institute of Arts, The Art of Black Africa. A Survey of African Sculpture from Collections in the Midwest, 8 février - 5 avril 1970

Soleure, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, 1er janvier - 31 décembre 1980

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf, 27 février - 10 avril 1988 ; Francfort-sur-le-Main, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 4 juin - 14 août 1988 ; Munich, Haus der Kunst, 17 décembre 1988 - 19 février 1989 ; Genève, Musée Rath, 15 mars - 15 mai 1989 ; Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern, 12 août - 22 octobre 1989

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller, septembre 1995

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, Arts lointains si proches dans le regard de Silvia Bächli, 20 mars - 28 octobre 2018



Further details

Songye kifwebe mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Africa
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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