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BEMBE HELMET MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

17 December 2024, 16:00 CET
Brussels, Chaussée de Charleroi

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BEMBE HELMET MASK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

echawokaba
wood, pigments
Height 49 cm

Provenance
Jacques Blanckaert, Brussels
Galerie Leloup, Paris
Private collection, Switzerland

Literature
Masques du Monde/Het Masker in de Wereld, Brussels, 1974, p.89
Vogel. S. and Thompson, J., Closeup. Lessons in the art of seeing African sculpture from an American collection and the Horstmann collection, New York, 1990, p.113, no.32
Schaedler, K.-F., Masks of the World, Munich, 1999, no.116
Bassani, E., at al., The Power of Form. African Art from the Horstmann Collection, Milan, 2002, p.185, no.76
Bassani, E. (Ed.), Masters of African Art. Forms and Styles. Eighty-four Sculptures from the Horstmann Collection, Mendrisio , 2007, p.107, no.50

Exhibited
Brussels, Credit Communal de Belgique, Masques du Monde/Het Masker in de Wereld, 28 June-31 July, 1974
New York, The Center for African Art, Closeup. Lessons in the art of seeing African sculpture from an American collection and the Horstmann collection, September 1990-March 1991
Mendrisio, Museo d'arte di Mendrisio, Masters of African Art. Forms and Styles. Eighty-four Sculptures from the Horstmann Collection, April-July 2007

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