Okua Mask

Southern Idoma or Boki
Middle Cross-River, Nigeria
Wood, pigments, metal, brown to black patina
Hight: 23cm

Provenienz:

Collection Francis Mazière, Paris

Galerie Marceau Rivière, Paris

Collection Maud und René Garcia, Paris

Publikation:

Marie-Louise Bastin, Introduction aux Arts D’Afrique Noire, 1984, n° 196, p. 207

François Neyt, The Arts of the Benue – to the roots of tradition, 1985, n° III.3, p. 91 (color) und S.. 133 (black and white)

Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau et al., Masques, Musée Dapper, 1995, p. 92

Price:

sold

This well-known okua mask was prominently included into three important French publications and furthermore exhibited in the Musée Dapper in 1995 during their significant show that had its focus entirely on a careful selection of African masks. Deriving from the Middle Cross River region, it is a mask that was danced during funeral ceremonies. Calm, pensive and of a captivating presence, it is a highly beautiful work of art that is perfectly able to embody the graveness of this fundamental event.