250320 - Old Rare African YAURE mask - Iv. Coast.

Antique & Rare Yaure mask from Iv Coast.
Height; 51 cm.
Hand carved from a single piece of wood and other material.
Certificate of origin and provenance.

This Yaure mask dates from the the first half of the 20th century and comes with 2 certificate of authenticity.

Very well preserved wooden ceremonial mask of the Yauré. Tribe from the center of Ivory Coast. Beautiful patina, finished with cowrie shells and vegetable fibers. With certificate of origin. Belgian private collection of
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf (°Etterbeek 1949) graduated in the Plastic Arts department of graphics at the Higher Sint Lukas Institute in Schaarbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C.P. Verstuyf aka Stef Verstuyf was art director and creative director in several international advertising agencies until 2014 and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s.
This collection consists of masks and statues (no weapons) mainly from CONGO (RDC) and also from GABON, ANGOLA, IVORY COAST, GHANA, TOGO, LIBERIA, CAMEROON and NIGERIA.