The Blue Horizon: Pacific Art from an Important Maui Collection

The Blue Horizon: Pacific Art from an Important Maui Collection

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Headdress Mask, Malakula, Vanuatu

Lot Closed

November 22, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Headdress Mask, Malakula, Vanuatu


Height: 21 3/4 in (55.3 cm)

Maurice Bonnefoy, New York, acquired by 1970
European Private Collection
Christie’s, Amsterdam, May 24, 2000, lot 156, consigned by the above
Private Collection, Maui, acquired at the above auction
Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Art Océanien, June 27 - December 31, 1970
Jean Gabus and Alfred Bühler, Art océanien, Neuchâtel, 1970, p. 94

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