| Description | Basonge mask, Belgian Congo. (ex Roland Penrose Collection); in exhibition 'A Hundred Masterpieces from a Hundred Tribes', Berliner Festwochen, 1964.
Correspondence between Ruby d'Arschot, Assistant Director of Berliner Festwochen & Roland Penrose May - November 1964, and related papers on the organisation of the exhibition & loan from Roland Penrose Collection.
/1. 1 x ts. letter, 12 May 1964, Paris Ruby d'Arschot to Penrose, London + encl ts. list of tribes (3 sheets)
/2. 1 x ts. letter, n.d., d'Arschot to Penrose (1 sheet)
/3. 1 x ts. letter, 21 May 1964, Penrose to d'Arschot (1 sheet)
/4. 1 x ts. letter, 23 May 1964, Penrose to d'Arschot (1 sheet)
/5. 1 x ts. letter, n.d., G Walton Paris, to Penrose (1 sheet)
/6. 1 x ts. letter with ms. additions, 2 July 1964, Joyce Reeves to John Wobb; re photography of mask (1 sheet)
/7. 1 x ts. letter, 19 June 1964, d'Arschot, Paris, to Penrose, London (1 sheet)
/8. 1 x collection order, 13 August 1964, Schenkers Limited (1 sheet)
/9. 1 x telegram, 14 August 1964, d'Arschot to Penrose; re. insurance (1 sheet)
/10. 1 x ts. letter, 16 August 1964, Penrose to d'Arschot (1 sheet)
/11. 1 x insurance certificate, 20 August 1964, Outshoor & Landau Brussels (2 sheets)
/12. 1 x shipping note, 24 August 1964, Schenkers Ltd (1 sheet)
/13. 1 x telegram, 12 November 1964, d'Arschot, Paris to Penrose; re. extension of exhibition (1 sheet)
/14. 1 x ts. letter, 17 November 1964, d'Arschot to Penrose (1 sheet)
/15. 1 x ts. letter, 13 January 1965, Peter Tügel, BP, Hamburg, to Penrose (1 sheet)
/16. 1 x ts. reply letter to /15., 19 January 1965, Penrose to Tügel (1 sheet)
/17. 1 x copy of ts. letter, 3 January 1967, Penrose to Richard Feigen concerning mask provenance
/18. 1 x newscutting, advert for Sotheby's sales, n.d. |