Dogon monkey mask, Mali Wood, raw patina,... - Lot 75 - De Baecque et Associés

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Dogon monkey mask, Mali Wood, raw patina,... - Lot 75 - De Baecque et Associés
Dogon monkey mask, Mali Wood, raw patina, light, with grey tones. H. 30 cm Late production Mask by the same hand exhibited at the Dapper Museum in October 1914 in the Dogon exhibition reproduced in the catalog on page 251. Provenance : Collected in situ in the 1980s The Dogon share a common vision of the creation and organization of the universe, oriented towards cosmogony and divination, notably around Ama, the first Nommo ancestor. The masks were sculpted away from the village, by the initiates of the awa society. Each mask corresponds to a myth, a story, an order of passage in the procession and a specific choreography. In 1938, Marcel Griaule published the most important monograph on these masks and counted seventy-eight different characters. If the Kanaga of the bird category are more widespread, the monkey masks are rarer. Powerful expressiveness, the face concentrated in a narrow plane, lengthening from the rounded forehead to the slimming, stretching jaw. The mask is skilfully structured, punctuated by a play of planes, of shapes following one another from the round forehead, to the flattened superciliary arches, to the eyes drawn by two large square cavities, under which appear rounded cheekbones in relief. The sides are animated by ears in medium relief. The forehead is decorated with a serrated frieze in relief.
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