Mask | Yale University Art Gallery

early 20th century

Medium: Wood, metal, and pigment
Dimensions: 16 × 8 1/2 × 9 1/2 × 16 in. (40.64 × 21.59 × 24.13 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line: Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection
Accession Number: 2006.51.208
Geography: Guinea Coast, Nigeria
Culture: Igala or Igbo
Period: 20th century
Classification: Masks
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Provenance

Lot 63, Loudmer & Poulain, Paris - 18 déc. 1975 - Art Primitif. J. Camp Associates, New York, to May 30, 1985; Charles B. Benenson Collection, Greenwich, Conn, 1985–2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Frederick John Lamp, Amanda Maples, and Laura M. Smalligan, Accumulating Histories: African Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2012), 175, ill

"Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 222

Richard Barnes, "Objects of Desire," Yale Alumni Magazine (September/October 2004), 33, ill

Susan Vogel and Jerry L. Thompson, Closeup: Lessons in the Art of Seeing African Sculpture from an American Collection and the Horstmann Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1990), 148, fig. 79

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

ceremonial objects, masks (costume)

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