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Sold Date: 03/03/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

Gotham Gallery
Offering the Finest Quality Sub-Saharan African Art
Outstanding African DRC Lele Face Mask
MEASUREMENT: HEIGHT: 9 WIDTH: 14 DEPTH: 10 INCHES
MEASUREMENT: HEIGHT: 23 WIDTH: 35.5 DEPTH: 25.5 CENTIMETERS
MEASUREMENT MASK ONLY
MEASUREMENT: TOTAL HEIGHT WITH STAND: 13.5 INCHES - 34.5 CENTIMETERS
MATERIAL: WOOD, VEGETAL FIBER, SHELLS, BEADS
ESTIMATED AGE: EARLY 20TH CENTURY
CONDITION: VERY GOOD
REMARKS: RARE MASK STYLE BEAUTIFULLY MADE AGED SURFACE
CUSTOM STAND: YES - INCLUDED
SHIPPING: US EAST COAST $15.00
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CONDITION
Worn areas, minor damaged to vegetal materials, overall condition very good. Thank you and please view my other items.
BACKGROUND
The art of the Lele is not well known. It is similar to Kuba styles with the exception of its masks, which generally have a flattened shape. The most important forms of Lele art are carved drums, divination instruments, boxes, pipes, and palm wine cups. Also Lele carvers produce statuettes and face masks. The masks often have slit eyes. The functions of the masks are little known. Lele masks appeared in dances accompanying the burial rites of chiefs and in annual foundation/creation ceremonies. Although the art of the Lele borrows many elements from the Kuba and Dengese in particular, the hairdo and long braids of the statuettes distinguish them from any others. The Lele also use different prestige objects. The figures on these objects occasionally have a coiffure with two long plaits down the back.
A custom stand is included with this mask. The stand is hand made specifically for this special piece. It is important to properly exhibit a beautiful piece of art. The splendor of the piece cannot be fully revealed without a correct display. Custom mask stands can cost a minimum of fifty and up to several hundred dollars depending on its complexity and size. It is very difficult to locate a good stand maker regardless of price, but fortunately this piece will be appropriately displayed and ready for you and your guests' enjoyment.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation.
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