TRIBAL ART
Auction, 4 December 2018
INIVITATION
TO CONSIGN
An exceptional and early
Nafana Bedu mask
Ivory Coast wood 202 cm
Provenance:
Franco Monti, Milan.
Exhibited:
“Costanti Poetiche nell’arte. Sculture precolombiane e africane”, Milan, 1962.
Coverpiece “Plastik aus Schwarzafrika”, Magistrat der Stadt Darmstadt, 1967.
“Origini dell’Astrattismo verso altri orizzonti del reale”, Palazzo Reale, 1980.
Published:
“La Casa a soggertto: Arte primitiva in uno spazio moderno”,
in “NOVITA”, Nº149, May 1963, Pg. 65.
“Tous les chemins de l’Art Primitif mènent à Milan”, in Maison & Jardin,
November 1963, Nº98, PG.137. Photographed at Franco Monti Home,
in Domus 412, 1964. Fr. Monti, “Le Maschere africane”, Milan, 1966, Fig. 33.
Fr. Monti, “African masks”, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1969, Fig. 33.
“I misteri dell’Arte Nera”, in BolaffiArte, 1973, Pg. 8-17, in Casa Vogue, 1982.
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