$1,800
Estimate: $400 - $600
Auction: September 23, 2020 11:00:00 AM EDT
Carved wood and pigment, the domed face mask with zoomorphic features, recessed segments colored in various bright hues, distinctive bulging eyes and a long beak like appendage, surmounted by a tall crest, with painted inventory number '1928' to reverse, raised on a bespoke mount.
H: 47, W: 9 3/4 in. (approx., mask only)Provenance: The Estate of Thomas McNemar, Lexington, Virginia.
PUBLICATIONS:
A Selected Portfolio of African Sculpture in the McNemar Collection (New York: McNemar Gallery of African Art, 1966), unnumbered plate.