Dogon Mask, Mali

19th – early 20th century

Wood, pigments, kaolin

H. 173cm

Provenance:

Arman, Paris and New York

Sam Szafran, Malakoff

Publication:

Parke-Bernet Galleries, African and Oceanic Art – The Property of ARMAN, New York, 18. May 1967,
lot 13

Price:

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The stunning interpretation of the antelope in Armans’ Dogon mask – a sculpture of astonishing height and great age – characterizes this work of art. Of sculptural finesse and ritually used for decades, it is a mask that always appealed to artists in the occident. After being owned by Arman, the mask was for several decades part of the collection of the French artist Sam Szafran – a close friend of Jacques Kerchache.