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Masque Yauré

Lot 35
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ID 1158347
Lot 35 | Masque Yauré
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
Masque Yauré

Côte d’Ivoire

Hauteur : 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.)





Provenance

Collection Hans Himmelheber (1908-2003), Heidelberg, acquis ca. 1935

Collection Josef Müller (1887-1977), Soleure, acquis avant 1939

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève (inv. n° 1007-8)



Literature

Himmelheber, H., Negerkünstler. Ethnographische Studien über den Schnitzkünstler bei den Stämmen der Atutu und Guro im Innern der Elfenbeinküste, Stuttgart, 1935, pl. XII, n° 26

Schmalenbach, W., L'art nègre/Die Kunst Afrikas/African Art, Bâle, 1953, p. 39, n° 36

Fagg, W., Masques d’Afrique dans les collections du musée Barbier-Müller, Paris, 1980, p. 60

Loucou, J.-N., Glaze, A. et al., Arts de la Côte d’Ivoire dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of Côte d’Ivoire from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1993, vol. I, p. 265, n° 273 et vol. II, p. 110, n° 184

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, p. 258, n° 119

Himmelheber, H. et al., Die Kultur der Baule. Fotodokumentation an der Elfenbeinküste 1933+34⁄35 von Hans Himmelheber mit Martin Lippmann, Zurich, 1997, p. 9

Fischer, E. et Homberger, L., Les maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire/Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste, Zurich, 2014, pp. 13, 15 et 16, n° III.2 et 3

Boyer, A.-M., Les Yohouré de Côte d’Ivoire. Faire danser les dieux, Genève, 2016, p. 145, n° 100

Martínez-Jacquet, E., « Actualités musées/Museum News », in Tribal Art Magazine, Arquennes, hiver 2016, n° 82, p. 48

Boyer, A.-M., « L’Afrique et la pérennité de l’immatériel/Africa and the Permanence of the Immaterial », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2017, n° 18, pp. 112 et 113, n° 10 et 12

Hertault, É et al., Yaouré. « Visages, du sacré », Paris, 2019, p. 3, n° III.1



Exhibited

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

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts de la Côte d’Ivoire dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller, 6 mai - 30 septembre 1993

Zurich, Museum Rietberg, Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste/Les Maîtres de la sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire, 14 février - 1er juin 2014 ; Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 27 juin - 5 octobre 2015 ; Paris, Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, 14 avril 2015 - 26 juillet 2015

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts de la Côte d'Ivoire, autour des Yohouré, 24 novembre 2016 - 30 avril 2017



Further details

Yaure mask, Ivory Coast
Medium:Wood
Place of origin:Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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