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LTX-103161

A Bwa Butterfly Mask

Burkina Faso

252.0 cm (99.2 in)

Provenance

Auction results

Lot 9, Loudmer & Poulain, Paris — Dec 14, 1979
Succession René Rasmussen - 1ère Vente
Estimate: FRF 60,000 - 80,000
Sold: FRF 122,000
Lot 57, Sotheby's, Paris — Jun 12, 2012
Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie
Estimate: Not spec.
Sold: EUR 624,750
USD 780,416
Lot 27, Native, Brussels — May 27, 2025
A Princely Collection
Estimate: EUR 200,000 - 300,000
Sold: EUR 208,000
USD 237,019

Publications

  • Jürgen Zwernemann, “Masken der Bobo-Ule und Nun am Hamburgishen Museum für Völkerkunde”, in Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, n°8, 1978, p.55, fig.6

  • Tom Phillips, Africa, the Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty, Prestel, Munich/New York, 1996, pp.160-161, cat.83

  • Alisa LaGamma, Genesis. Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, New York/New Haven, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2002, p.62, cat.25

  • John III Pemberton, Genesis, “Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture”, in African Arts, vol. XXXVI, Spring 2003, p.84

  • Christopher Roy & Thomas G.B. Wheelock, Land of Flying Masks: Art & Culture in Burkina Faso, the Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel, 2007, p. 231, cat.175

Exhibitions

  • New York, Guggenheim Museum Africa: The Art of a Continent, 100 Works of Power and Beauty, 7 June - 29 September 1996, cat.83

  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, 19 November 2002 - 6 July 2003, cat.25