The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection

The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection

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Chokwe Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Auction Closed

May 24, 03:58 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Chokwe Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo


Height: 14 3/4 in (37.5 cm)

Jeanne Walschot, Brussels
Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren (inv. no. 55.72.26), acquired from the above in 1955
Merton D. Simpson, New York (inv. no. 2826)
Acquired from the above on December 14, 1983
Musée du Pays de Rochefort et de la Famenne, ed., Rochefort et le Congo, Rochefort, 1969, cat. no. 11
Manuel Jordán, ed., Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples, Munich and New York, 1998, p. cat. no. 57
Musée du Pays de Rochefort et de la Famenne, Rochefort, Rochefort et le Congo, June 29 - September 21, 1969
Birmingham Museum of Art, Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples, November 1, 1998 - January 3, 1999; additional venues: Baltimore Museum of Art, June 13 - September 5, 1999; Minneapolis Institute of Art, October 24, 1999 - January 16, 2000