September Great Estates Fall Curated Auction

Willow Auction House's September Great Estates auction features over 200 finely curated lots of decorative items, furniture, jewelry and artwork. This sale features a selection of mid-century and Danish modern furniture, including pieces by Jens Risom, Kip Stewart, Paul McCobb and Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller. Among the other lots on offer are a Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano, several shipbuilder's models, silver including Georg Jensen and a Wang Hing & Co. Chinese export box, two Rolex watches, a Franz Bergman cold painted bronze and a large selection of ethnographic and tribal items from the Labelle Prussin Estate, Author of African Nomadic Architecture., including jewelry, masks and statues. Rounding out the sale is a collection of artwork, with paintings from David Burliuk, Perle Fine and Kurt Trampedach, photographs by Bernice Abbott & Gordon Parks, a Norman Rockwell collotype, works from Pedro Friedeberg, Alexander Calder, Robert Indiana, and a mixed media cigar box from Mihail Chemiakin.

Large mask with stylized geometric eyes and face. Wear from age, splintering of wood. Indicative of the Dogon of Mali culture. Masks were used in dances to commemorate the origin of death. Death was created because of the failings of mortal kind and their wrong doing against the divines. Masks are also used to help spirits into the afterlife. 40" H Provenance: From the Labelle Prussin Estate, Author of African Nomadic Architecture.