AFRICAN TRIBAL DAN DEANGLE MASK LIBERIA MUSEUM EXHIBITED KAHAN TA GALLERY 2 COL

Description

A Superb Dan Deangle
Mask
- Ivory Coast (or Liberia)
Mid 20th Century
Wood, vegetal fibers, shell, hair, pigment
Height: 39.8cm (15.7in)
PROVENANCE:
Albert Gordon and Leonard Kahan, Tribal Arts Gallery Two, New York,  New York
Paul Pastel Collection, Ithaca, New York, 1975; purchased from the above (invoice on file)
Private Los Angeles, California Estate, 1980’s
EXHIBITED:
University of Central Missouri, McClure Archives Museum,
Masquerade: Selected Works from Western and Central Africa
, January-February, 2010, Cat No. 30-86
University of Central Missouri, McClure Archives Museum,
Art & Identity
, January 11-March 18, 2016, Cat No. 9.3.3
*Provenance documentation and Gordon & Kahan Tribal Gallery Two invoice on file and can accompany the artifact for historical conservation purposes.
Description:
Mask of hollowed form, with projecting lips and delicately modeled nose with protruding ridge, pierced slit eyes and rounded forehead, all below an elaborate braided fiber coiffure
.
Provenance:
The present Deangle mask is a classic antique example of Dan artistry and formerly of a Private Los Angeles Estate. The work was originally displayed at the Tribal Arts Gallery Two in New York until purchased by collector Paul Pastel in 1975
. Curatorial Remarks:
Fine condition displaying natural wear, minor separations to fiber headdress, dark brown patina. Surface wear commensurate with age and use
.
The 350,000 Dan people, also known as the Yacuba, occupy the western regions of the Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia. Dan sculptors mainly produce masks which deal with virtually every element in Dan society, including education, competition, war, peace, social regulation, and of course, entertainment (McIntyre and Roy, 1998). Masks are the most important art form of the Dan. Many of the other forms of sculpture are derived from the mask and what the mask symbolizes. Numerically, more masks are created than any other form of sculpture. Spiritually, they are perceived to embody the most powerful of spirit forces. Socially, masks are the means of bringing control and order to village life. This Deangle mask represents a female forest spirit who served as a mediator during youth initiation rites
.
Cf.
Sotheby’s,
The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection
, Sale N08386, New York, May 17, 2007, Lot 16 (
SOLD ,000
) for a related example and Christie’s,
Tribal Art From the Estate of the Late Baron Freddy Rolin
, Sale 2554, Amsterdam, July 2, 2002, Lot 167 (
SOLD 3,834 EUR
), Zemanek Munster,
Tribal Art: African and Oceanic Tribal Art from Private Collections
, Sale 70, Wurzburg, Germany, September 8, 2012, Lot 251 (
SOLD 6,000 EUR
) and Sotheby’s,
Paolo Morigi Collection: Important African Art
, Sale PF5021, Paris, June 6, 2005, Lot 142 (
SOLD 10,800 EUR
) for comparable examples.
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