Art Institute of Chicago
Female Figure
Kantana · Early-mid 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Philippe Guimiot, Brussels, Belgium, by 1971 [personal communication with P. Guimiot documented in curatorial file]. John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1971 [acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1972.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Los Angeles, Calif., Fowler Museum, Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, Feb. 13–July 24, 2011; traveled to Washington D.C., National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 14, 2011–Feb. 12, 2012; traveled to Stanford, Calif., Cantor Arts Center, May 16–Sept. 2, 2012; traveled to Paris, Musée du Quai Branly, Nov. 12, 2012–Jan. 27, 2013), cat. 12.19.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, Primitivism in the 20th Century: Affintiy of the Tribal and the Modern, Sept. 19, 1984–Jan. 15, 1985; traveled to Detroit Institute of Art, Feb. 23–May 19, 1985; traveled to Dallas Museum of Art, June 15–Sept. 9, 1985, cat. pg. 363.
Literature
Published references
- “Recent Acquisitions,” African Arts, vol. IV, no. 1 (Autumn 1972), p. 76 (ill.)
- William Rubin, ed. 1984. "Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal to the Moder, exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, vol II, pg 363 (ill.).
- Marla Berns, ed. Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley, exh. cat. (UCLA, Fowler Museum, 2011), p. 404, cat 12.19.
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 49, pp. 122-123 (ill.).
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