Beschreibung:

lipiko
Wood, beeswax, natural pigment
Height 10 3/4in (28cm)
Provenance
Jonathan and Eve Lowen Collection, London
Robert and Helen Kuhn Collection, Los Angeles
New York Private Collection
Published
Cole, Herbert, I am not myself: The art of African masquerade, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985, fig. 82.
Robbins, Warren and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1989, fig. 1353
Exhibited
Mission Viejo, California, The Saddleback College Art Gallery, 1985;
Santa Barbara, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1985;
Los Angeles, The Museum of Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985,
I am not Myself: The art of African masquerade
New York, The Museum for African Art, Exhibition-ism: Artists and Ancestors in African Art, 14 October 1995 - 5 March 1995
In a letter from William Fagg, Fagg comments, "This very fine and rare mask is one of the very best known to me, only being exceeded in importance by certain famous masks in the German museums from the period before the First World War. It is one of the very few which still have the full scarification."