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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Kanak Mask, New Caledonia

Lot Closed

December 4, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Kanak Mask, New Caledonia


The reverse inscribed in white ink: "62.1083" and in red ink: "RW 57.61"

Height: 18 1/8 in (46 cm)

Allan Frumkin, Chicago
Raymond J. Wielgus, Chicago (inv. no. RW 57-61), acquired from the above in 1957
The Art Institute of Chicago (inv. no. 62.1083), donated by the above in 1962
Christie's, New York, November 22, 1996, lot 216, consigned by the above
Wayne Heathcote, London, acquired at the above auction
Sotheby's, Paris, December 4, 2008, lot 37, consigned by the above
Private Collection, New York, acquired after the above auction
Genevieve and Donald Gilmore Art Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, The Art of Black Africa and Oceania, November 7 - December 5, 1969 
Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965, n.p., cat. no. 80
Diane M. Pelrine, Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Bloomington, 1996, p. 217 (listed)