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Baule Goli Mask, Ivory Coast
Description
- wood
- Height: 38 1/2 inches (100 cm)
Provenance
Balene McCormick, Santa Fe, acquired from the above in 1974
Catalogue Note
Kplekple masks vary in size, ranging in height from less than 15 inches to more than 40 inches. For other masks of similar scale cf. one, measuring 43 1/4 inches (110 cm) in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, first published in 1966 by Warren Robbins (1966: 93); a second, measuring 38 1/2 inches (98 cm), in a private collection (Maesen and Van Geluwe 1963: 78, cat. 434; Meauzé 1967: 167; Yale - Van Rijn Archive inv. no. "21471"); a third, measuring 39 1/4 inches (99.7 cm), previously in the collection of Jay C. Leff, Uniontown (Carnegie Institute 1969: cat. 115); and a fourth, measuring 38 1/2 inches (100 cm) just as the McCormick Mask, in a private collection which was published and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the landmark show "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art (Rubin 1984: 585).