AUCTION 285 - AFRICAN AND OCEANIAN ART FROM TWO IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (ONLINE)
Lot 97
A fine dark patina wooden mask with comb headdress. An idealized female face is represented, the hair is decorated with geometric patterns and on the head she wears a comb headdress perhaps to suggest the portrait of a rich woman within the community.
Provenance: Parisian collection of the painter Arturo Carmassi (Lucca, 1925- Empoli, 2015). This piece was inherited from the French humanist and collector Renée Druart (Grasse 1888-1961) whose daughter Carmassi had married.
Measures: 33.0 cm
Starting price: € 1.400,00
Estimate: € 2.000,00 - 3.000,00
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