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Lot 80 Dα

YORUBA HORSEMAN

Auction 1147 - overview Brussels
29.01.2020, 14:00 - Art of Africa, the Pacific and the Americas
Estimate: 2.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 3.968 € (incl. premium)

YORUBA HORSEMAN
Efon-Alaye, Nigeria

106 cm. high

The carving is very likely the superstructure for an Epa mask. For a similar mask, also depicting a warrior on horseback, and attributed to the master carver Agbonbiofe of Efon-Alaye, see Fagg, W., Nigerian Images, London, 1963, fig.84a.

Provenance

Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris