SOLD / SOLD! Exceptional Mask Idimu LEGA Exceptional Mask MC0869

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Congo DRC

Exceptional Idimu LEGA Mask

This amazing mask would have (according to the collector who sold it to me) a relationship with birth .
I have come across only one similar mask in the literature, that of the Willy Mestach collection, much larger (Biebuyck, Lega. Ethics and Beauty, page 106)

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Bibliography - Art Lega - Bibliography:

- Lega. Ethics and Beauty in the heart of Africa. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 2002. KBC.
- Lega jewels from the Benoît Rousseau collection. Viviane Baeke, RMCA and Benoît Rousseau. 2013. BRUNEAF.

- In search of the meaning of Bwami, through a collection unlike any other. Viviane Baeke. Undated. Royal Museum for Central Africa.

- The sculpture of the Lega. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 1994. Galerie Hélène and Philippe Leloup-Paris-New-York.

- The arts of Zaire, Vol II Eastern Zaire. Daniel P. Biebuyck, 1986, University of California Press.

- The Art of the Central African Lega, Elizabeth L. Cameron. 2013, Quai Branly Museum.

- Lega Culture. Art, Initiation and Moral Philosophy Among a Central African People. Daniel P. Biebuyck. 1973. University of California Press.
- The Lega and their art. In the footsteps of a dreamer lost in Congoland Emile-Alexandre Georges. 2005. Royal Museum for Central Africa.

- The Lega Art - Greatness and Humility. In the Vallois collection, Valentine Plisnier and Michel Boulanger, 2016.

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LEGA Idimu Mask