AN IMPORTANT YAKA MASK, Democratic Republic of the Congo

collects ed in situ by Hans Himmelheber, 1930s
The Weyhe Gallery, New York, by 1940
Chaim and Renee Gross, New York, acquired from the above in 1944

The Weyhe Gallery, New York, African Negro Art, January 1940
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Masterpieces of African Art, October 21, 1954 - January 2, 1955
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, The African Image: A New Selection of Tribal Art, February 1 - 22, 1959
Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art collects ion of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross, 1976 (additional venues: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, November 5, 1976 - January 2, 1977; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, March 27 - May 1, 1977; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, May 17 - July 17, 1977)

The Weyhe Gallery (ed.), African Negro Art, New York, 1940, cat. 76
The Brooklyn Museum of Art (ed.), Masterpieces of African Art, Brooklyn, 1954, cat. no. 191
Margaret Plass, The African Image: A New Selection of Tribal Art, Toledo, 1959, p. 28, cat. 145
Arnold Rubin, The Sculptor's Eye, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 72, cat. 61

Very good condition overall; losses to the outside rim as seen on photographs, areas of abrasion on the edge of the nose and the front and back edges of the mask and the proper left reverse; exceptionally fine deeply encrusted dark brown patina.
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