Kyogen theater mask in polychrome lacquered wood representin - Lot 357

Kyogen theater mask in polychrome lacquered wood representing a monkey (saru), lacquered brown, red (in the center of the face), and gold (on the eyes), on the reverse a paper inscribed with a typewriter "Masque de singe type " Saru " XVIIIème, reproduit dans les chefs-d'œuvre de Migeon, Collection André Schoeller". Beautiful patina. Japan, 18th-19th century. Height : 18 cm. Width: 15 cm. (Worn and missing lacquer, chips and restoration to the chin). Expert: L.M. Provenance: - Sale of October 15 -16 -17, 1956, Paris, Hôtel Drouot: "Collection André Schoeller (deuxième vente), Objets d'arts du Japon du XVIIIe siècle, vente après décès", lot no. 311 (section "Omote : masques pour les danses de Nô"), described: "Brown lacquered wood mask, simian, "Saru" type. 18th century. Not illustrated. - André Schoeller Collection (1879-1955), famous art dealer, expert and collector in Paris, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. This mask does not appear in Gaston Migeon's 1905 catalog "Masterpieces of Japanese Art" (a mistake?), but three other masks from Schoeller's collection are well illustrated in Migeon. These came from the famous Japanese art collections of Charles Haviland and Louis Gonse, sold in Paris in 1922 and 1924.