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African Masks in David Norden's
collection.
[ Dan mask Duperrier ] [ Pende sickness mask 2 ] [ makonde mask ] [ Dan Toma mask ] [ Kifwebe mask ] [ Dogon mask 2 ] [ Lega mask lip ] [ Tschokwe mask ] [ Yaka circumcision mask ] [ Kpele mask ] [ Cihongo mask ]
"Whatever
may be their age, the African Masks constitute by their variety and specially by
their strange beauty one of the most marvelous plastic creations of humanity.
The thousand year old dances which these artist people ceaselessly repeat every
night by the shimmer of their fires, were the true school of their sculptors.
The negro possesses to a high degree a sense of form and its necessary relation
to life, the solid sense of the true sculptor. Without ever becoming entangled
in the imaginative extravagances of the Polynesians, he knows how to make use of
elements taken from nature while african art remaining free to express his
emotions directly in all his creations"
Charles Ratton, in Masques
Africains. (IF YOU HAVE THIS BOOK LET US KNOW, WE WANT TO BUY IT)
Masks are the best part of David Norden's collection and
represent a wide range of types.
They were worn to endow the wearer with supernatural powers
for the purposes of expressing complex ideas involving the forces of fertility
and protection, to become a member of a secret society, or for initition rites,
funerary rituals, civil or religious ceremonies, instruction, or story-telling
and masquerades. Others represented status.
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Masks We selected for you older than 50
years and usually are coming from known collections, preferably
published. You will get free insured delivery and 15 days guarantee.
Masks available for sale in this section :
Dan mask Duperrier
Pende sickness mask 2
makonde mask
Dan Toma mask
Kifwebe mask
Dogon mask 2
Lega mask lip
Tschokwe mask
Yaka circumcision mask
Kpele mask
Cihongo mask
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Presentation TIP: You can put African Masks
on the wall, but they will look more valuable by putting them on a stand.
Quite often a stand if offered with the mask when buying.
See some of them by clicking in the nagitation tabs on your
left, learn about the meaning of these masks by clicking the links, and best
part that you won't be able to do when visiting a Museum, you can get these
masks on your wall and you'll get free delivery worldwide and two weeks
of money back guarantee, since I understant that buying on images are not
always so easy, even if as an previous professional photographer I tend to
show quite realistically how the masks are, without hidding cracks or default
if any. |
You can always email me to make an offer, for more views or
any question send me an African masks information request of availability
(click to email)
Special masks for
high end collectors
the masks below
cost more than 20,000 €, ask the price if you have funding in place and
want to invest. Please be aware that the African Art market is not a
speculators market .
Buy only if you
love African Art !
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A fine Dan
mask coming
from the Duperrier collection Paris .
This Dan mask is in my
private collection since 2003,...
Published in Tribal Magazine
autumn 2003 .
I am not in a hurry
to sell it , will not do an exchange and it is in a higher price category
than most pieces on this site.
It gives me to much
pleasure, this is Museum quality.
read more about the
Dan_mask_ex
Duperrier
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Learn by reading african art books
All our masks are sold with a two weeks money back guarantee
and a free delivery worldwide.
We guarantee the authenticity from all our items, you'll get a free of charge
complete description with our opinion that feature a photograph of the object,
the culture of origin, the presumed age, and also all other known information's
like provenance, use , previous history.
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