*Baule/Yaure Mask, Ivory Coast H. 29 cm Replacement... - Lot 79 - De Baecque et Associés

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*Baule/Yaure Mask, Ivory Coast H. 29 cm Replacement... - Lot 79 - De Baecque et Associés
*Baule/Yaure Mask, Ivory Coast H. 29 cm Replacement mask Provenance: Tribal Arts Gallery, 84 east 10 street New York 1985. American private collection. Among the Yauré, the masks are composed of human and zoomorphic elements, belonging to the Io society. They were intermediaries used to influence the supernatural forces called Yu, responsible for the ills of men, the imbalances in the community as well as for their prosperity. Spiritual intermediary entities, extremely dangerous to manipulate, to keep away from women, they intercede between humans and the invisible creator God to overcome and conjure up the fear of social imbalance, of disorder, to re-establish and favor the harmony of the community. Obeying the canons of the beauty Yauré, on the aesthetic and moral plan, "the portraits-masks would not completely fill their function without the part of the animal world indissociable from the humanity Yohouré." (Bertrand Goy). A superbly mastered tension, five summit horns (one of which is missing) plunging delicately above the face, the projection accentuated by a sophisticated square headdress finely engraved with a succession of geometric motifs. A shiny brown patina with lighter shades, especially on the cheeks and eyelids, whose reflections reveal subtle modeling effects, intensifying the expressiveness of the half-closed eyes. The superbly decorated eyebrows with engraved motifs in relief drawing their outline meet at the top of the linear nasal bridge to better blend in with it and lead the gaze to the superbly chiseled nose. The oval face is magnified by a serrated collar. The "engraved trilobal motif" (B. Holas) crowns the forehead. The temples are decorated with scarifications. Intensification of the expressiveness reinforced by the play of plan and the contrast of the volumes of the face: the slightly bulging forehead opposed to the lower part of the face, thus accentuating the serenity of the half-closed eyes. Mask with delicate features imbued with softness and serenity. The lot is in temporary importation and is subject to a 5.5% fee payable by the buyer in addition to the sale costs and the hammer price.
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