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Vintage 1970s Lipico Depicting Young Person
This is a vintage 1970s lipico mask with excellent signs of use. By the ’70s, the stylization of the human form that was popular in the 1940s gave way to a more prosaic, populist rendering of personhood. By now, Western influence in the material arts was widespread. Photography was ubiquitous. Fully illustrated magazines, brimming with photographic images, found their way in tattered copies to even the most remote hamlets. The political art of the communists and revolutionaries was reactionary and realist. Lipico masks became portraits of individuals and common, proletarian types. This example appears to be a portrait of a young person. The execution is flawless, symmetrical and alive with remarkably thin walls in keeping with the masks of previous generations.
Ex collection Gérald (1937-2009) and Muriel (1948-2020) Minkoff, Geneva, Switzerland. Published in the exposition catalogue “La marque jeune”, ed. by Marc-Olivier Gonseth, Yann Laville and Grégoire Mayor, Neuchâtel: Musée d’ethnographie, 2008: 144.145. Exhibited in Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN), 28 June 2008 – 1 March 2009.
10″ H
