Gelede mask

Artist Unidentified

early 20th century

Object PlaceRepublic of Bénin

Medium/TechniqueWood, pigment, metal

DimensionsOverall: 43 x 44 cm (16 15/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Carolyn and Eli Newberger

Accession number2011.2111

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsMasks

Collections

Africa and Oceania

ProvenanceBy 1976, Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich [see note 1]; November 8, 1980, anonymous (probably Schädler) sale, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, lot 62; December 2, 1983, anonymous (“property of a German private collector”) sale, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 119, to Drs. Eli and Carolyn Newberger; 2011, year-end gift of Drs. Eli and Carolyn Newberger to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)

NOTES:
[1] Lent to the exhibition “Afrikanische Kunst” (Stadtsparkasse, Munich, April 14-May 26, 1976).