Lot Essay
Cf. a similar mask in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Basel (Speiser, 1990, colour plate xliii and pl.93.6)
Details
A RARE AMBRYM MASK, of light wood painted blue, white and ochre, with pierced eyes, triangular nose and jutting forehead with crest above, lengths of attached banana fibres
27cm. high
27cm. high
Provenance
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich
Bretschneider, Munich, purchased from the Museum in 1956 and sold in 1958 to Marie-Ange Ciolkowska, Paris
E. Hepburn, Paris
Bretschneider, Munich, purchased from the Museum in 1956 and sold in 1958 to Marie-Ange Ciolkowska, Paris
E. Hepburn, Paris
Literature
Hausenstein, 1922, on the cover and Pl.30
Exhibited
Cannes, 1957, no.390