Sculpture: Africa, Pacific, Americas
Sculpture: Africa, Pacific, Americas
John Richardson: A Scholar Collects
We Mask, Côte d’Ivoire
Lot Closed
December 4, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John Richardson: A Scholar Collects
We Mask, Côte d’Ivoire
on a base by the Japanese wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876-1951), Paris
Height: 11 in (27.9 cm)
Paul Guillaume, Paris, acquired before 1918
Sir Jacob Epstein, London, probably acquired from the above
Christie’s, London, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Primitive Works of Art of Africa, Asia, North and South America, Oceania and Australasia from The Epstein Collection, December 15, 1961, lot 86
Sir John Richardson, New York, acquired at the above auction
Sir Jacob Epstein, London, probably acquired from the above
Christie’s, London, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Primitive Works of Art of Africa, Asia, North and South America, Oceania and Australasia from The Epstein Collection, December 15, 1961, lot 86
Sir John Richardson, New York, acquired at the above auction
Marius de Zayas, African Negro Sculpture, New York, 1918, n.p., unnumbered plate
André Portier and François Poncetton, Les art sauvages. Afrique, Paris, 1927 (and reprinted in 1956), pl. XXXVII, cat. no. 62
William Fagg, The Epstein Collection of Tribal and Exotic Sculpture, London, 1960, n.p., cat. no. 131 (listed)
Ezio Bassani and Malcolm D. McLeod, Jacob Epstein, Collector, Milan, 1989, p. 18, fig. 15, and p. 85, cat. no. 42
André Portier and François Poncetton, Les art sauvages. Afrique, Paris, 1927 (and reprinted in 1956), pl. XXXVII, cat. no. 62
William Fagg, The Epstein Collection of Tribal and Exotic Sculpture, London, 1960, n.p., cat. no. 131 (listed)
Ezio Bassani and Malcolm D. McLeod, Jacob Epstein, Collector, Milan, 1989, p. 18, fig. 15, and p. 85, cat. no. 42