
Art Institute of Chicago
Face Mask
Bete · Late 19th or early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Julius Carlebach (died 1964), Carlebach Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1958 [acquisition paperwork in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Toledo Museum of Art, The African Image, Feb. 1– 22, 1959, cat. pl. 47.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 19, 1969–Feb. 8, 1970, cat. 61.
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, African Sculpture, 1970, cat. 125.
Literature
Published references
- Margaret Plass, The African Image (The Toledo Museum of Art, 1959), p. 13, pl. 47.
- Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), n. pag., pl. 61.
- Warren M. Robbins, African Art in American Collections (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1966), pp. 86-87, fig. 79.
- Jacqueline Delange, Arts et Peuples de l'Afrique Noire (Paris: Editions Gallemard, 1967), p. 262, fig. 44. [The Art and Peoples of Black Africa, trans. Carol F. Jopling (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1974), p. 68, fig. 44.]
- William Fagg, African Sculpture, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery and the International Exhibitions Foundation, 1970), p. 110 , cat. 125 (ill).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 25, pp. 80-81 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis, "Making Objects Speak at the Art Institute of Chicago: A New Publication and a Refurbished Arts of Africa Gallery," in Tribal Art magazine (No. 99, Spring 2021), p. 112 (ill.).
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