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Lot 113

Dogon Mask, Mali

11 May 2021, 11:00 EDT
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Dogon Mask, Mali

kanaga
Wood
height 16 1/2in (42cm)

Provenance
John Giltsoff, London/New York/Brussels/Girona
Don Nelson Collection, Greenwich
Drs. Nicole and John Dintenfass Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 2000, Lot 177
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco
German Private Collection

Published
Barbier, Jean-Paul, Confidentiellement vôtre, Arts and Cultures, No. 2, 2001, p. 196, fig. 5;
Diederen, Roger and Christian Lange, Das Ewige Auge - From Rembrandt to Picasso: Masterworks from the Collection of Jon Krugier and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowsk, Munich, 2007, pp 490-91, cat. 237
Ekelhart, Christine and Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier un Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Vienna, 2005, p. 310. ill. 1
Stocci, F, 2017, Pascali Sciamoano, Milan: Foundation Carrier, Vol. 1, pp 72, 77

Exhibited
Vienna, From Goya to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Collection of Jan Krugier and Marie-Ann Krugier-Poniatowski, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 8 April - 28 August 2005
Munich, Das Ewige Auge - From Rembrandt to Picasso: Masterworks from the Collection of Jan Krugier and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, 20 September - 7 October 2007
Milan, Pascali Sciamano, Fondazione Carriero, 23 March - 24 June 2017

The most obvious and striking feature of this superb kanaga mask is the dominating nasal plane which extends out underneath the domed head, creating a masterful work of abstraction, morphing when viewed from various directions; fine light brown weathered patina indicative of significant age.

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