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Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart

Dan Mask, Côte d'Ivoire

Auction Closed

June 18, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart


Dan Mask, Côte d'Ivoire


Wood, plant fibres, iron


Height (including plant fibre beard): 12 ⅞ in (32.7 cm); Height (mask): 9 ⅛ in (23.2 cm)

French Private Collection

Gaston de Havenon, New York, acquired from the above by May 30, 1971

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, New York, acquired from the above on July 4, 1973

Sotheby's, New York, African Art from the Collection of Sidney and Bernice Clyman, June 30, 2020, lot 45

Acquired at the above auction by the present owner

The Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., African Art: the de Havenon Collection, May 30 - October 3, 1971

The Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 - February 27, 1994

Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the de Havenon Collection, Washington, D.C., 1971, n.p., pl. 83

Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, 1993 (listed)

Vivien Raynor, "Behind African Masks and Ritual Objects, Spiritual Mysteries", The New York Times, January 16, 1994, p. WC13

Fairfield County Weekly, February 3, 1994, p. 8

Antiques and the Arts Weekly, February 25, 1994, p. 110

Katonah Museum of Art, ed., Calendar of 2003, February 16 - 23, 2003