KOTA ARTIST
Helmet Mask, emboli, Gabon, late 19th-early 20th century
Wood, pigment
67.3 x 35.6 x 33 cm
26 1/2 x 14 x 13 in.
26 1/2 x 14 x 13 in.
Provenance
Field collected by Christian Duponcheel, Brussels, 1966
Ex Bruce Vogel, New York
Ex private collection, New York, 1990-2025
Exhibitions
Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika. Kunsthaus Zurich, 31 October 1970 - 17 January 1971
Eternal Ancestors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2 October 2007 - 2 March 2008
Literature
Publications
Leuzinger, Elsy. Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika. Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1970, p. 257, fig. R14
Leuzinger, Elsy. The Art of Black Africa. New York: Rizzoli International, 1976, p. 106, 227
LaGamma, Alisa. Eternal Ancestors: The Art of the Central African Reliquary. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 298, no. 109
Crichton-Miller, Emma. "Collectors' Focus-African tribal art", Apollo. July/August 2016. p.82, fig.1