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THBDyo Mask, Bwa People, Burkina Faso
Lot 27
Timed Auction in Progress ... Currently on Lot Estimate:
$3,000 - $5,000
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Feb 22, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
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2024-02-22 14:00:00
2024-02-29 20:00:00
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Paintings and drawings by and attributed to master artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including: Robert Rauschenberg, Yves Tanguy, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Wassily Kandinsky, Francis Bacon, Ossip Zadkine, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann, Sam Francis, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Henri Matisse and many more. 500 Gallery info@500gallery.com
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African Tribal Art: Bwa People, Burkina Faso: Mask representing Dyo, Carved wood and pigments. Late 19th/early 20th century. The mask comes with a custom-made steel display stand.
The Bwa people use art as an aid in maintaining balance between their lives and the powerful forces of nature, called Dyo. These masks were worn at important rites and events. At funerals, their presence was required for the safe passage of the dead between this realm and the next.
The mask imagery, a combination of geometric abstract patterns and animal/bird/human features, are based on local references to the relationships of lineages or clans to the Dyo.
A comparable mask appears in AFRICAN ART MASTERPIECES, George Nelson Preston, Page 111, Plate 46.
51H; 62H on stand (inches).
Private Collection, Massachusetts, Private Collection, New York
Good condition with signs of use and age; worn patina; wood cracks and desiccation; some tribal repairs made with iron bands/cleats.Condition
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