SOLD / SOLD! MC1751 Beautiful male mask Songye Kifwebe Male Mask Congo DRC
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CONGO DRC
BEAUTIFUL MALE MASK SONGYE KIFWEBE
The Kifwebe masks are real modern sculptures with a very daring architecture, resolutely cubist, with exuberant shapes and volumes.
The Songye live in southeastern Congo DRC
Geographically and culturally, they are close neighbors of the Luba settled further south and east.
Features:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICITY: Songye - Basongye.
ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo.
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICITY: Songye - Basongye.
ORIGIN: Democratic Republic of Congo.
(Ex Belgian Congo, ex Zaire).
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: Height 32 cm
CONDITION: Average
(See photos).
The base is NOT included
Around 1940
CONDITION: Average
(See photos).
The base is NOT included
Around 1940
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Bibliography - SONGYE - Bibliography
Masks - Masks
- 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.
Fetishes - Power figures
Fetishes - Power figures
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.
- Art and Power in the Central African Savannah, Constantin Petridis, Mercator Fund, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008
Shields - Shields
- Objects Signs of Africa, texts brought together by Luc de Heusch, "Colors, Stries and Projections", Dunja Hersak, sd Snoek, Pages 161-173
- Shields, Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the collection Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Prestel, 2000
- Shields of Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Jean-Paul Barbier, Alain-Michel Boyer, P. Benitez-Johannot, Adam Biro, 1998
- Arts of Black Africa, in the Barbier Mueller collection, presented by Werner Schmalenbach, Fondation Maeght, 1989 p264 Note by Joseph Cornet
- Songye; the formidable Songye statuary of Central Africa, François Neyt, Mercator Fund, 2009.
- Songye masks and figure sculpture, Dunja Hersak London 1985
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CONGO DRC
SONGYE Beautiful Kifwebe Male Mask
Tea Kifwebe masks are real modern sculptures with very audacious architecture, exuberant shapes and volumes.
The Songye live in southeastern Congo DRC
Geographically and culturally, they are close to the Luba, settled further south and east.
The Songye live in southeastern Congo DRC
Geographically and culturally, they are close to the Luba, settled further south and east.
Features:
TYPE OF OBJECT: Mask.
ETHNICAL GROUP: Songye - Basongye
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Democratic Republic Congo
(ex Zaire, ex Belgian Congo).
MATERIAL: Wood.
DIMENSIONS: About 12 1/2 inches high (32 cm)
CONDITION: Medium
Please have a look on pictures.
Base is NOT included
Circa 1940
Base is NOT included
Circa 1940