A FINE MAKONDE TERRACOTTA MASK

Description:

East-Africa, Tanzania
H. 16 cm
An expressive, semicircular mask in the shape of a strongly abstracted face with remnants of polychrome painting.
From a German private collection, according to the present owner, formerly collection Walter Hekster (1937-2012), Amsterdam; private collection Ferry Herrebrugh, Amstelveen; private collection Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg. - Published: Een keuze uilt de vrzameling von Walter Hekster, Maskers uit Oost-Afrika verzameld door Walter Hekster, o. O. und O.J. (nach 2012) Privatdruck - Cf. Tanzania, Meisterwerke Afrikanischer Skulptur (1994), figs. 279, 251 - Partially minor wear, metal stand