Fang Mask

Description

Gabon - late 19th c

Wood and pigments
39 cm
Old label on the inside: "no. 81 Masque Fang du Sud du Gabon (très rare)"
Painted inventory number: "RG, 50"

Provenance:
Adolphe Feder (1886-1943) Collection, Paris
Leiris, Paris (according to Galerie Ratton-Hourdé certificate)
Loudmer, Paris, Arts Primitifs, 9 December 1989, lot 250
Ratton Hourdé, Paris
Private collection, Belgium (acquired from the above in 2000)

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Fang Mask

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