Vouvi African Art Gabon Mask

Mask vuvi / vouvi, gabon. Dating: c. 1950 - 1960. Dimensions: 39 X 21 cm. Materials: wood. Provenance: ex private collection, france. Provided with a certificate of provenance from an independent expert. In the heart of central gabon, between the offoué and lolo rivers, are the vuvi, a small and recently little-known culture. The vuvi are best known in the outside world for a small corpus of face masks, most collected in the 1930s, whose graphic and abstract design is strikingly pure.

Ref. : 2YETXSPU