Item/Description: Lot of four decorative African masks. Includes:

- Elegantly carved Baule Yaure style mask. Delicate hand carved features within heart shaped outline. Curved carved hornlike headdress, scalloped beard edge, tribal markings on forehead and hairline.
Material: Wood., paint
Dimensions: Length: 13 1/2"; Width: 6"; Depth: 5 1/2"
Condition: Surface, use and age wear, paint loss. Damage to headdress, missing wood ornamentation.

- Baule style African mask, Ivory Coast. Finely carved features and headdress. Linear decorations and scarifications across forehead and cheeks.
Material: Wood
Dimensions: Length: "; Width: "; Depth: "
Condition: Surface, use and age wear includes abrasions/ rubbing to prominences, wood loss to lower lip, ears.

- Masterfully carved Baule style mask. Fine, graceful features, ornately carved geometric beard and headdress with tapered spire. Linear carvings across headband. Painted wood.
Material: Wood, paint
Dimensions: Length: 15 1/2"; Width: 6"; Depth: 3 3/4"
Condition: Surface use and age wear, wood loss/chipping to headdress, right eye socket, scalloped decoration, rubbing, abrasions, paint loss.

- Beautifully carved African wood mask, in the style of the Yaure Baule tribes. Decorative mask features human and animal traits, zoomorphic. Two bird figures drinking.
Material: Wood
Dimensions: Length: 15 1/2"; Width: 10 1/2"; Depth: 5 1/2"
Condition: Surface use and age wear includes abrasions, superficial cracks, wood loss.

Age: 20th Century

Provenance: Private collection from a single New York estate.

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