Face Mask

1. Unknown owner; sold to Jean-Willy Mestach (b. 1921), Brussels, Belgium, before 1961 [personal communication with J-W Mestach, October 1983, documented in curatorial file]. Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Ill., by 1961; sold to the Art Institute, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, A World’s Treasure: the Art Institute, 1893-1993, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994, cat.

• Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange, African Art, Arts of Mankind, vol. 11 (Thames and Hudson, 1968), p. 119, fig. 116.
• Ezio Bassani, "Due Rare Sculture della ‘Raccolta Congolese Cap. E. Piola’ de Parma," Africa 31, no. 2 (1976), pp. 278-9 (discussed), fig. 4.
• Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), p. 494, no. 1278 (ill.).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, "African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), p. 27, fig. 12.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 67, pp. 162-163 (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. 114 (ill.).