SOLD / SOLD! MC0923 Imposing 70 cm Male Mask Songye Kifwebe Provenance Large Mask

SOLD / SOLD! MC0923 Imposing 70 cm Male Mask Songye Kifwebe Provenance Large Mask

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CONGO DRC

Imposing (70 cm) Old Male Mask 

Songye Kifwebe


The Songye created these masks among the most impressive of the art of black Africa.
Male Kifwebe masks are real modern sculptures with very daring architecture, exuberant shapes and volumes.
They instantly evoke Cubism.

The streaks that cover practically their entire surface would be a reminiscence of the labyrinthine journey that is the Bukishi initiation

GOOD PROVENANCE: Patric Claes
Patric Claes is a Belgian African Art dealer, based in Brussels. He is a great specialist in the traditional arts of the Congo.
Participant in the last Cultures Bruneaf in 2019 at Sablon, Brussels
He also organized an exhibition of Masques Mbangu Pende (disease masks) in 2017.

Features:

TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICITY: Songye - Basongye.
ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo.
(Ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaire).
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: Height 70 cm
CONDITION: Fair - Poor
Numerous repairs, major defects,
but it's still a great mask.
(See photos).
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Bibliography - Bibliography

- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985
- Colors, Streaks and Projections, Dunja Hersak, in Objects Signs of Africa, Texts collected by Luc de Heusch, Snoek, Pages 161-173
- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008
- Masks Kifwebe, Woods Dawy, Tribal Art Magazine N° 20 Spring 2008 Pages 102-113
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.

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CONGO DRC

Large Old SONGYE
Male Kifwebe Mask


The Songye have created these masks among the most impressive of the art of Black Africa.
Tea male Kifwebe masks are real modern sculptures with very audacious architecture, exuberant shapes and volumes.
They evoke us instantly Cubism.

The streaks that cover almost their entire surface would be a reminiscence of the labyrinthic course that is the initiation Bukishi
 
GOOD PROVENANCE
Patric Claes is a Belgian dealer of African Art in Brussels
He's a specialist for the Congo traditional Arts
Exhibition in Cultures Bruneaf Brussels in 2019

He also made an exhibition of MBANGU PENDE (sickness Pende masks) in 2017.

Features:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICAL GROUP: Songye - Basongye (east)
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Democratic Republic Congo
(ex Zaire, ex Belgian Congo).
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: About 27 1/2 inches high.
CONDITION: Fair - bad.
Many defects, many repairs
But it remains a superb old mask.
Please have a look on pictures.
Base is NOT included.
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