Baule Portrait Mask ndoma

Baule Portrait Mask  - now in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven  - image 1

Baule peoples, Ivory Coast
Wood
19th century
Height: 27 cm

Provenance
René Rasmussen, Paris
Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, "Succession Rasmussen", Sale I, 14 December 1979, Lot 32
Jennifer Pinto Saffian, New York
Entwistle, London
Gift from Steven M.Kossak, B.A. 1972

Selected Exhibition History
30 August 1997- 4 January 1998, New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
14 February- 10 May 1998, Chicago, IL, The Art Institute of Chicago, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
11 September 1998- 3 January 1999, New York, Museum for African Art, Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
Permanent Exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery
[Acc. No. 1996.13.1]

Selected Publication History
Alain-Michel Boyer, Baule, Milan, 2008, p 149 and pl 15
Susan Mullin Vogel, Ed., Baule: African Art, Western Eyes, New Haven, CT, 1997, cat 95

 

Acquired from Entwistle by
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven