Ijo Water Spirit Mask, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

wood
Height: 39 in (99 cm)

Provenance

Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Munich, acquired in Abidjan in the 1970s
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, November 8, 1980, lot 80
Harald and Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, acquired in 1981
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, September 8, 2012, lot 139, consigned by the above
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Munich, acquired at the above auction

Exhibited

Stadtsparkasse München, Munich, Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, April 14 - May 26, 1976
Stadtsparkasse Kempten, Kempten, Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, March 1977

Literature

Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Afrikanische Kunst in deutschen Privatsammlungen/African Art in Private German Collections, 1973, p. 223, no. 314
Karl-Ferdinand Schaedler, Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, Munich, 1975, p. 150, pl. 207
Stadtsparkasse München (ed.), Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, Munich, p. 81, no. 93