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Guro elephant mask. Ivory Coast c.1950-60 Measurements: 70cm high This beautifully carved Guro elephant mask represents the spirit of Gu, Zamble's wife; a supernatural being. Gu is often depicted as an animal. The Guro worship five: the antelope, the hyena, the leopard, the crocodile and the elephant. These are animals found mainly in the savannah and tropical forest where the tribe of 200,000 people live. Exhibitions: 2022 - 2024 - Fuerteventura Island "African Art: Ancestral Light" La Entallada Lighthouse. Fuerteventura Town Hall. 2021 - 2022 - Panama City. Government of Panama. "African Art: the spirit of the ancestors" Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Old Town. 2019 - 2020 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. "Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent" Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo. 2019 - 2020 - Santa Cruz de La Palma. Caja Canarias Foundation. "Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent." Massieu House. Santa Cruz de la Palma. 2013 - 2015 - Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (MADAO) La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia 2005 --------- "Black Africa" Leather Museum. Vic - Barcelona. 2004 .......... "Black Africa" Caixa Laietana Foundation. Barcelona Main exhibition hall.

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Guro elephant mask. Ivory Coast c.1950-60 Measurements: 70cm high This beautifully carved Guro elephant mask represents the spirit of Gu, Zamble's wife; a supernatural being. Gu is often depicted as an animal. The Guro worship five: the antelope, the hyena, the leopard, the crocodile and the elephant. These are animals found mainly in the savannah and tropical forest where the tribe of 200,000 people live. Exhibitions: 2022 - 2024 - Fuerteventura Island "African Art: Ancestral Light" La Entallada Lighthouse. Fuerteventura Town Hall. 2021 - 2022 - Panama City. Government of Panama. "African Art: the spirit of the ancestors" Ministry of Culture Headquarters. Old Town. 2019 - 2020 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Caja Canarias Foundation. "Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent" Headquarters Plaza Patriotismo. 2019 - 2020 - Santa Cruz de La Palma. Caja Canarias Foundation. "Africa-Babel: the art of a Continent." Massieu House. Santa Cruz de la Palma. 2013 - 2015 - Museum of Art of Africa and Oceania (MADAO) La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia 2005 --------- "Black Africa" Leather Museum. Vic - Barcelona. 2004 .......... "Black Africa" Caixa Laietana Foundation. Barcelona Main exhibition hall.

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JAVIER MARISCAL (Almazora, Castellón, 1950) for Akaba. Garriris" chair, 1987. Chrome-plated square steel tube frame with aluminum, plywood seat and red leather upholstery. In very good condition. This model is in important collections and museums such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Museu del Disseny in Barcelona. It was exhibited at the George Pompidou in Paris for the Nouvelles Tendances exhibition in 1987. Measurements: 97 x 44 x 60 cm. The Garriris chair assimilates the animated character Mickey Mouse with the iconic ears on the backrest and his characteristic shoes. Renowned industrial designer, cartoonist and comic artist, Javier Mariscal has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1970. He studied design at the Elisava School in Barcelona, but soon abandoned his studies to learn directly from his surroundings and follow his own creative impulses. He began his career in the world of underground comics in publications such as "El Rrollo Enmascarado" or "Star", along with Farry, Nazario and Pepichek. After making his first own comics in the mid-seventies, in 1979 he designed the Bar Cel Ona logo, a work for which he began to be known by the general public. The following year the Dúplex opened in Valencia, the first bar signed by Mariscal, together with Fernando Salas, for which he designed one of his most famous pieces, the Dúplex stool, a true icon of design in the eighties both inside and outside our borders. In 1981 his work as a furniture designer led him to participate in the exhibition of the Memphis Group in Milan. In 1987 he exhibited at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and participated in the Documenta in Kassel. Two years later his design Cobi is chosen as the mascot for the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, controversial at first but now recognized as the most profitable mascot in the history of the modern Games. In 1989 he created Estudio Mariscal and collaborated on various projects with designers and architects such as Arata Isozaki, Alfredo Arribas, Fernando Salas, Fernando Amat and Pepe Cortés. Among his most outstanding works are the visual identities for the Swedish Socialist Party, the Onda Cero radio station, the Barcelona Zoo, the University of Valencia, the Lighthouse design and architecture center in Glasgow, the GranShip cultural center in Japan, and the London post-production company Framestore. In 1999 he received the National Design Prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry and the BCD Foundation in recognition of his entire professional career.

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Fritz Leopold Hennig, Bachlauf im Sommer Trees on the banks of a stream in a gently moving mountain landscape, impasto landscape painting, oil on card, around 1950, monogrammed "FLH" in ligature lower left, traces of studio on the reverse, indistinct annotations in lead and two artist's labels, each with artist's monogram and hand signature as well as different text "Sonderklasse - Alle Gemälde der Sonderklasse tragen dieses Qualitätszeichen mit meiner in Tinte vollgezogenen eigenhändigen Unterschrift: Prof. F. L. Hennig." and "Kunstwerkstatt Hennig - Motiv Prof. F. L. Hennig (copying without permission prohibited) ... due to the numerous imitations, all paintings that leave my art workshop bear my handwritten signature in ink on the reverse: "Prof. F. L. Hennig"", in need of cleaning, framed, folded dimensions approx. 60 x 80.5 cm. Artist information: German painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, draughtsman, novelist, playwright and operetta author (1895 Danzig to 1951 Dresden), participated in World War I as a naval pilot, survived several plane crashes, awarded the "Bene Merenti Medal" by Wilhelm Prince of Hohenzollern on 17 May 1918, ca. 1918-21 studied at the Dresden Academy, in the 1920s and 1930s in Sopot near Gdańsk [Engl.: Sopot near Gdańsk] as a painter, graphic artist and commercial artist, here parallel turn to writing, 1945 moved to Dresden and founder and director of the training workshops for art and applied arts in Dresden, appointed professor by the Soviet occupation authorities, 1949 dissolution of the training workshops, then freelance painter, graphic artist and writer in Dresden-Oberloschwitz, allegedly author of the operetta "Nun schlägt's 13", which premiered in Wurzen in 1948, member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts from 1940, member of the Goethe Society Weimar after 1945, source: Wikipedia.

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