About the lot N° 65
Title : Masque Ibibio Ekpo Ibibio Ekpo Association Mask
Size : Hauteur: 47 cm. (18 ½ in.)Provenance : Acquis vers 1997 par Richard Faletti, Chicago
Offert par The Faletti Family Collection à l'Art Institute of Chicago en
2006 (inv.2006.112)Literature : Nooter M., Roberts A., A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti
Family Collection, (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997), p. 103, cat.
46b.
Nooter, M., Roberts, A., A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti
Family Collection, 1997, p. 110, cat. 46bNotes : The two Ibibio masks on offer from the Art Institute of Chicago
demonstrate the dichotomy of life as portrayed in the masks worn for the
important Ekpo society. In the offered Faletti mask, as opposed to the
Hammer example, one sees the 'ugly' in a more zoomorphic or uncivilized
form - characteristics associated with disorder and evil forces.
Richard Faletti (1922-2006) was a Chicago-based lawyer who became
fascinated by African art after a business trip to the continent. As
noted by Richard Townsend, 'With scholarly zeal and the reasoned
approach of a corporate attorney, Mr. Faletti became a respected
collector of African art.' He was a member of the advisory committee of
Townsend's department at the Art Institute and a trustee of museums,
including the Heard Museum in Phoenix. In his career, along with former
Winston & Strawn partner, Walter Mondale, he opened the firm's Hong Kong
office in the early 1980s. From 1985 until his retirement in 1989, he
was managing partner of the firm's Phoenix office. Collecting was part
of Faletti's life from a very early age, when he collected stamps and
baseball cards, later Impressionist paintings, and then African artChristie's, auctioneer, Paris, FR
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Sale title : Art Africain et Océanien
Sale date : 19 Jun 2013
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