Montagut Gallery

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Le Visage de l’Autre exhibition

Montagut Gallery presents the exhibition Le visage de l’autre, an eclectic display of masks from Africa.

Due to the crisis of the Covid19, a selection of the contents of the exhibition are shared virtually.

To receive detailed information about any of the masks on display, please contact the gallery at guilhem@galeriamontagut.com

Kwélé Mask
Kwéle people, Gabon

Period: Late XIXth century  – early XXth century
Height: 46 x 65 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Aristide Courtois Collection
Merton D. Simpson Collection, New York
Arman Collection, New York

Gouro Mask
Gouro people, Ivory Coast

Period: XIXth century
Height: 40 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Docteur Durville Collection, Paris
Collection Christine Valluet Collection, Paris
Rachel Montagut Collection, Barcelone

Bete Mask
Bete people, Ivory Coast

Period: Late XIXth century
Height: 28 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Private collection, France
Alberto Costa de Tejada Collection, Barcelona
Private collection, Palma de Mallorca
Javier Lentini Collection, Barcelona

Senufo mask
Senufo people, Ivory Coast

Period: Late XIXth century – early XXth century
Height: 23 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Alberto Costa Collection, Barcelona
Private collection, Spain
Javier Lentini Collection, Barcelona

Dan Mask
Dan people, Ivory Coast

Period: Late XXIth century – early XXth century
Height: 18 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Old French collection

Bété-Gouro Mask 
Bété or Gouro people, Ivory Coast

Period: Late XIXth century – early XXth century
Height: 40 cm
Material: Wood and animal skin

Provenance:

A. Scheinberg Collection, New York

Dan mask
Dan people, Ivory Coast

Period: XIXth century
Height: 29 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Marc Ejzemberg Collection, France
Monbrison Gallery, Paris
Javier Lentini Collection, Barcelona

Okua mask
Idoma people, Nigeria

Period: Late XIXth century – early XXth century
Height: 22 cm
Material: Wood

Provenance:

Samir Borro, Brussels
Alain de Monbrison, Paris

Exhibition:
Musée de Grenoble, Art with anterior future
La Monnaie de Paris, Fragments of life

Publication:
Tossato G. And Viattte G., L’art au futur Prior, s.p., nº 34
Paudrat J.L .. Fragments of the living, p. 211

Malinke-Senufo mask 
Senufo people, Ivory Coast

Period: XIXth century
Height: 33 cm
Material: Wood and nails

Provenance:

François Kerbouche Collection
Alain de Monbrison Collection, Paris
Claus Schmidt Collection – Luprian, Munich

Bwoom mask
Kuba people, Democratic Republic of Congo

Period: XIXth century
Height: 33 cm
Material: Wood and copper

Provenance:

Roland de Montaigu Collection, New York
Private collection, Barcelona

Yauré mask
Yauré people, Ivory Coast

Period: XIXth century
Height: 22 cm
Material: Wood, copper an ivory incrustations

Provenance:

Private collection, France
Private collection, Barcelona