MAMBU MASK

Mbwodang, Fungom (Wum),
Cameroon, 19th – early 20th century
Wood; height 38 cm
provenance

Jacques Kerchache (1942-2001), Paris, until 2001
By descent from the above
Ana and Antonio Casanovas, Madrid, acquired from the above
Bruce and Michelle Moore, Carmel, acquired from the above
Sotheby’s, New York, Private Sale arranged by Heinrich Schweizer, 2009
Jane and Gerald Katcher, Coral Gables, acquired from the above
Sold by Heinrich Schweizer to a Private Collection, 2011

exhibited

Rome, Villa Medici, Scultura Africana. Ommagio a André Malraux, May 7 – June 15, 1986

published

Pierre Harter, Arts Anciens du Cameroon, Paris, 1986, p. 236, fig. 270
Villa Medici (ed.), Scultura Africana. Ommagio a André Malraux, Rome, 1986, plates 181 and 182
Jacques Kerchache, Jean-Louis Paudrat, and Lucien Stéphan (eds.), L'Art africain, Paris, 1988 [English edition: Art of Africa, New York, 1993], plate 138
Arte y Ritual, Tribal Art, 12, Spring 2006, inside cover

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