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West African, Bobo region (Burkina Faso)

Bobo-Fing helmet mask. 19./20th century

Wood, painted in colour. 44 × 21 × 32 cm (17 ⅜ × 8 ¼ × 12 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: West African, Bobo region (Burkina Faso). Bobo-Fing helmet mask. 19./20th century.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,720

 

- 8,960

Sold for:

11,250 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Wood, painted in colour. 44 × 21 × 32 cm (17 ⅜ × 8 ¼ × 12 ⅝ in.).

Related literature: Norbert Elias: Excerpts from the exhibition catalogue „Afrikanische Kunst"; in: Norbert Elias. Aufsätze und andere Schriften I, vol. 14, Amsterdam 2006, p. 131-170 / Hermann Korte: Der ethnologische Blick bei Norbert Elias; in: Biographische Skizzen zu Norbert Elias, Münster 2013, p. 55-66.

Circa 1962 collection Norbert Elias (1897–1990), Accra, later Amsterdam / 1990 from the estate of Elias to Hermann Korte (born 1937), Münster / since 2008 private collection, Switzerland

African Art from the Collection of Professor Norbert Elias, exh. cat., Leicester 1970, cat. no. 40, p. 13