
Art Institute of Chicago
Female Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash)
Kuba · Late 19th-mid 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München, Nov. 10, 1979, Ethnographic Art, 34, lot 282, as Ngaady Mwaash [illustrated on cover of auction catalogue; p. 83]; sold to Jacques Hautelet, Brussels, Belgium, and La Jolla, CA [personal communication from J. Hautelet, Oct. 2013, documented in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Francois Neyt, Arts Traditionnels et Histoire au Zaire (Societe d'Arts Primitifs, 1981), p. 158 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), p. 151, fig. 1.
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