Mask - Wood - Baule - Ivory Coast
A hallowed Baule mask, Ivory Coast, with a goatee, a pointed mouth beneath a slender nose framed by semicircular eyes, hemispherical ears, scarification marks on the temples and nose, the face with a heart-shaped facial plane, surmounted with a corona similar headdress, pierced through at the rim for attachmen; brown to reddish surface, traces of age and ritual use, provenance Amadou Bouaflé. Amadou Bouaflé, during his performance 30. 12. 2019 in his house Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Last photo) . Lit. : Susan M. Vogel: Baule: African Art Western Eye, 1997.
View it on
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
A hallowed Baule mask, Ivory Coast, with a goatee, a pointed mouth beneath a slender nose framed by semicircular eyes, hemispherical ears, scarification marks on the temples and nose, the face with a heart-shaped facial plane, surmounted with a corona similar headdress, pierced through at the rim for attachmen; brown to reddish surface, traces of age and ritual use, provenance Amadou Bouaflé. Amadou Bouaflé, during his performance 30. 12. 2019 in his house Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Last photo) . Lit. : Susan M. Vogel: Baule: African Art Western Eye, 1997.