Property from a Private Collection, Connecticut
Baule Mask, Côte d'Ivoire
Lot Closed
December 4, 05:42 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collection, Connecticut
Baule Mask, Côte d'Ivoire
The interior of the mask with two handwritten labels:
"CLL. Nr. 84 exhibition Arts Africain, March – May 70, Musée Cantini, Marseille"
"Ancestral Mask. The Atie is a small tribe which speaks the Akan language, living on the Ivory Coast among the Baule, Agni, and neighboring tribes. They often seem to borrow their sculptural forms from their neighbors, especially the Baule. Ex-collection A. Muller, Saint-Gratien. Height: 40cm."
Height: 13 7/8 in (35.3 cm)
Alfred Muller, Saint-Gratien, acquired prior to 1970
John J. Klejman, New York
Frieda and Milton Rosenthal, Harrison, New York, acquired from the above in the 1970s
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal: African and Oceanic Art, November 14, 2008, lot 53
Private Collection, Connecticut, acquired at the above auction
John J. Klejman, New York
Frieda and Milton Rosenthal, Harrison, New York, acquired from the above in the 1970s
Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal: African and Oceanic Art, November 14, 2008, lot 53
Private Collection, Connecticut, acquired at the above auction
Musée Cantini, Marseille, Arts africains, March 23 - August 2, 1970
Musée Cantini, ed., Arts africains, Marseille, 1970, n.p., cat. 84