CooperEvans-FineArt
NewYork
Collection
Winter2024
Cooper Evans Africa- Oceania- Asia evansafricanart@gmail.com www.cooperevansfineart.com +1 (646) 596-0188 New York, NY Reference photos courtesy of AHDRC and Wikimedia Commons.
1Pende Mask ‘Mbuya’
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Early-Mid 20th Century Wood, Pigments H: 26.5cm
Provenance:
Colonial Collection before 1960, Liege, Belgium
Olivier Larroque, Parcours des Mondes 2016
Guy van Rijn Family Collection
Batak Lute ‘Hasapi’
Sumatra, Indonesia
Late 19th Century Wood, Metal, Beads
H: 62cm
Provenance: Collection Rodger Dashow, Boston
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Yoruba Twin Figure ‘Ere Ibeji’
Oke Iho, Nigeria
Early 20th Century Wood, Metal, Pigments H: 27cm
Provenance:
Collection Hanni Janzten, Germany (Co-Author of Doppel-Leben: Ibeji, Zwillingsfiguren der Yoruba)
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Bwa Hyena Mask
Burkina Faso
Early 20th Century Wood, Fiber, Pigments H: 25cm (mask only)
Provenance:
Thomas G.B. Wheelock, New York
Published:
Roy (Christopher D.) & Wheelock (Thomas G.B.), "Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection", Prestel, 2007
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Ekoi Crest Nigeria
1910’s
Wood, Leather, Rattan, Pigments
H: 42cm
Provenance:
Ernst Anspach, New York
Deborah Stokes Hammer, Chicago
Sotheby's, New York, "African and Oceanic Art", 14 Nov. 2003. Lot 42 Collection Biebuyck, Massachusetts
Published:
- "African Tribal Sculpture from the Collection of Ernst and Ruth Anspach", New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1967:30
- Galloway & Lommel, "Prehistoric and Primitive Art", New York: Harry Abrams, 1968:172, #252
- Walker, “African Women/African Art”, 1976:37, fig. 23, The African-American Institute, New York, Sept. 13-Dec. 31, 1976
Hemba Figure ‘Singiti’
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Late 19th - Early 20th Century Wood, Cloth H: 59cm
Provenance:
Photographed and Collected in-situ in the 1970’s Paolo Morigi, Lugano
Lucas Ratton, Paris
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Present Figure: Far Left
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Shilluk Mask
Sudan 20th Century Gourd, Pegs, Adobe H: 24cm Provenance: Amyas Naegele, New York
A mask from the same corpus, exhibited by Pace at the 2006 Parcours des Mondes show
Mbole Figure ‘Okifa’
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Early 20th Century Wood, Pigment
H: 23cm
Provenance:
Galerie Lemaire, Amsterdam, #R 3906 French Private Collection
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Makonde Mask ‘Lipico’
Tanzania or Mozambique
Circa 1940’s Wood, Pigment, Hair 24cm
Provenance: Gerald Minkoff, Geneva
Published:
Gonseth Marc-Olivier , Laville Yann , Mayor Grégoire “La marque jeune”, catalog of the exhibit at Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, 2008, p. 144
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Turka Figure
Burkina Faso
Early 20th Century Wood H: 31cm
Provenance:
Sebastien Fernandez, New York
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Dan Mask
Liberia
Early 20th Century Wood
H: 18cm
Provenance:
Collection of Frederic Littman, Oregon
Exhibited:
“Between Realms: African Art from Portland Collections”, The Littman Gallery, The White Gallery, and the Silver Gallery Second Floor, Smith Memorial Center, Portland State University, May - June 1985
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Yoruba Staff for Eshu
Nigeria
Late 19th - Early 20th Century Wood H: 51cm
Provenance:
Martin Coppens, Eindhoven Berry de Bruijn, Netherlands
Published:
Coppens (Martien), Negerplastiek, fotografisch benaderd (Negro Sculpture, a photographic approach) , Eindhoven: private edition, 1975: #97
13 Yam Mask
Papua New Guinea
20th Century Woven Rattan
H: 25cm
Provenance:
Caroline Jolles, Paris
Bruce Frank, New York
Sebastian Fernandez, New York
Dan Figure ‘Lu Me’
Liberia
Early 20th Century Wood, Fiber, Kaolin H: 51cm
Provenance:
Collected by Gustave Maignan between 1925-1927 in Ivory Coast Maignan family collection, Rennes
Eric Hertault, Paris Joel Green, California
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Photographed in Maignan’s apartment
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Bobo Mask Burkina Faso
Late 19th - Early 20th Century Wood, Fiber H: 70cm
Provenance:
Jean-Marc Desaive, Belgium
Exhibited at BRUNEAF
Winter2024 ~C.E.