
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Female Figure
Tellem · 11th-19th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henri (died 1992) and HélèneKamer (later Hélène Leloup), Henri A. Kamer Gallery, Paris, before 1964, reportedly found in Irelli, Mali [invoice of sale dated May 31, 1964 from Kamer Inc. in curatorial file; personal communication with Grace Hokin documented in curatorial file]; sold to Edwin Hokin (died 1990) and Grace E. Hokin (born Grace Cohen, died 2009), Chicago, IL, from May 1964 [invoice dated May 31, 1964 from Kamer Inc. in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1991.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, African Abstraction: Dogon Figurative Sculpture, July 3- Oct. 20, 1996, no cat.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Critical Fabulation, Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), p. 55, fig. 12.
- Kathleen E. Berzock and Cherise Smith, “Art of the Western Sudan,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 110-111, fig. 4.
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), p. 37, fig. 1.
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