Catalogue Japanese masks

Extremely deluxe sales/ exhibition catalogue of Japanese masks, from the Felix Tikotin collection, The Hague. Published c. 1930. Collection of 100 photos of antique wooden masks, incl. Gyodo and Noh theatre masks, pasted on loose, numbered sheets. In cloth cassette incl. added Japanese index.

Cloth of cassette discoloured and tender in places, locks of string and bone, one of which missing. *Probably published in very limited edition during an exhibition of these masks. Jewish architect, trader and collector of Japanese art, Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) traded all over the world between the 1920s and 1980s. He opened galeries in Berlin (1927) and later in The Hague, forced to move there in 1933 due to the Nazi regime. Both Tikotin, forced to go into hiding during WWII, and his collection survived the war. In 1956 he founded the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, Israel.