IVORY COAST
IVORY COAST
Two Dan masks made of wood: one with a black patina and a stylized brown headdress, and the other enhanced with kaolin and featuring a false mustache.
Formerly in the collection of Dr. Frédéric André Wetzel, a physician and cultural figure in Munster, who was a close friend and colleague of Albert Schweitzer. The collection was subsequently passed down and expanded by his son, a pharmacist based in Lambaréné (Gabon) and later in Côte d’Ivoire, according to oral family tradition.
See biography in the sale catalog
H.: 22 cm – W.: 13 cm on average
IVORY COAST
Two Dan masks made of wood: one with a black patina and a stylized brown headdress, and the other enhanced with kaolin and featuring a false mustache.
Formerly in the collection of Dr. Frédéric André Wetzel, a physician and cultural figure in Munster, who was a close friend and colleague of Albert Schweitzer. The collection was subsequently passed down and expanded by his son, a pharmacist based in Lambaréné (Gabon) and later in Côte d’Ivoire, according to oral family tradition.
See biography in the sale catalog
H.: 22 cm – W.: 13 cm on average
