Face Mask (Idimu) by Lega
Art Institute of Chicago

Face Mask (Idimu)

Lega · Late 19th-early 20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Edwin Hokin (died 1990) and Grace E. Hokin (died 2009), Chicago, Ill., by 1963 [see Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, 1963, no. 22]; by descent to Grace Hokin (née Cohen) (d. 2009), Chicago, Ill.; given to the Art Institute, 1991.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Pau, Musée des beaux-arts. Sculptures de l'Afrique noire, Dec. 1961-Jan. 1962
  • Chicago, Ill., McCormick Place Art Gallery, "Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin," May 3-June 6, 1963, cat. 22.
  • Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago Collectors, Sponsored by the Men's Council of the Art Institue, Sept. 20-Oct. 27, 1963.
  • Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, "The Language of Beauty in African Art", April 3-July 31, 2022; Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 20, 2022 - Feb. 27, 2023, cat. no. 104.

Literature

Published references

  • Françoise Debaisieux. Sculptures de l'Afrique noire, exh. cat., Dec. 1961-Jan. 1962 (Pau, Musée des beaux-arts), introduction by Jacqueline Delange, plate 37.
  • Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Hokin, exh. cat. McCormick Place Art Gallery, 1963, cat. 22.
  • Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 65, pp. 158-159 (ill.).
  • Constantine Petridis, ed., The Language of Beauty in African Art, ex. cat. (Yale University Press, 2022), cat. no. 104, p. 165 (ill.).

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