It’s been a lot of fun collecting it.
I think what I love is that I get to enjoy these creations without creating them myself. I guess that’s called living vicariously.
Djimini Mask from Ivory Coast
DDC_0476
12″ x 7.5″ x 6″ & 0.5lb
Provenance:
ex Merton Simpson
ex Mark Eglinton
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Hemba Statue from DR Congo
DDC_0185
21.5″ x 6″ x 6″ & 9lbs
Provenance:
*ex Swiss Collection bought a couple years ago by Michel Koenig, Brussels
*Undersigned Francois Neyt certifies the authenticity of this ancestor Hemba Sculpture at the beginning of the 20th century, done in Brussels on 01/24/2013
*Published: African Tribal Art Book
*Yale#0042566
*Christies London July 3, 1980 Lot 434
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Why, you ask? What’s African art got to do with you, Dave Dahl? I’ll tell you what. Nothing. And that’s freaking great.
This mask is particularly cool.
Bamana Kore Mask from Mali
DDC_0085
16″ x 6″ x 6″ & 2 lbs
Provenance:
ex Alfred L. Scheinberg, NY
ex Mark Eglinton, NY
ex Fily Keita
In the Bamana culture, there are six initiation societies, Kore being the last and is known as the stage of attaining divinity. They believe in endless re-incarnation and that each time he returns to earth, that God removes a portion of his spiritual nature and keeps it in Heaven. Therefore, if uninitiated, the deity will become completely reabsorbed. To ensure infinite reincarnations, the Kore teachings are essential.
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Bakongo Yombe Drum Holder from DR Congo
DDC_0203
19.” x 27.5″ x 3″ & 3lbs
Provenance:
San Francisco Tribal Art Show 2017; Marc Assayag
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Bamana Figural Door Lock from Mali
DDC_1023
21″ x 21″ x 4″ & 6 lbs (with base)
Traditionally, door locks were used to protect granaries and houses. Bamana door locks often contain ancestral representations in abstract form.
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Salampasu Frontal Mask from DR Congo
DDC_045321″ (with raffia) x 9″ x 7″ & 0.5lb
Provenance:
Collected in situ by Madeleine Christine Forani, Paris and stored in possession of family and purchased from granddaughter
.Photographed with Salvador Dali
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Luba Elephant Kifewebe Mask from DR Congo
20″ x 10″ x 10″ & 2.5lbs
Provenance:
ex Woods Davy
Yale #0068402-01
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Yaka Ndeemba Mask from DR Congo
17″ x 7″ x 9″ & 0.5lb
Provenance:ex Richard Reitzes, New York
In Yaka culture, masks are worn for multiple occasions. When Yaka boys are ready for initiation they are taken to bush camps and are put through multiple rituals to prepare for manhood. Yaka masks are also worn during public festivals. The ndeemba style mask are worn by newly circumcised young men during their dances and marks their return to village life.
Nail Fetish Figure from DR Congo
23″ x 9″ x 10″ & 6.5lbs
Provenance: *May D&F Co. Denver, Colorado, before 1964
*Denver Art Museum, Colorado (inv.1964.292) acquired from the above, 1964
*Cole Harrell, New York, acquired from the above to benefit the Denver Art Museum Acquisitions Fund
Exhibited: Denver Art Museum, Colorado, Frederic C. Hamilton Gallery, 2006-2016
Bakongo Nkondi nail fetishes were used by communities for many reasons including protection against illnesses and evil spirits, and to set in stone contracts and decide argument outcomes. A holy person would activate the statue using magical substances. The Bakongo people also deeply believed in these figures ability to be effective tools to identify and punish wrong doers. The nails would be hammered into the sculpture to provoke action.
Baule is a tribe, not an in individual artist. We don’t know who carved it, but it appears to be by a “known hand”, and we are looking into it.
Provenance: Private French Collection (Richard Gabillet).
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