Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)

1. John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1962 [Preston 1973, no. 3]; sold to Ernst Anspach (died 2002), New York, NY, from 1962 until at least 1979 [Chaffin 1979, p. 263, no. 159]. Unknown private collection, Paris, France, before 2006 [personal communication from Steven Morris documented in curatorial file]; Lance and Roberta Entwistle and Co., London, and Steven Morris, Donald Morris Gallery, New York, NY and Birmingham, Mich., 2006 [personal communication from Steven Morris documented in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 2007.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Anspach Collection, March 17-May 12, 1968, n.pag., no. 77.
• Ithaca College Museum of Art, The Innovative African Sculptor, Nov. 11-Dec. 21, 1969, p. 37, no. 61, p. 56, no. 61 (discussed); traveled to Hamilton, N.Y., The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Feb. 15-March 15, 1970.
• Potsdam, N.Y., Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, 1973, n.pag., no. 3.
• Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, "The Language of Beauty in African Art", April 3-July 31, 2022.

• John C. Galloway, Modern Art: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dubuque: W.C. Brown Company Publishers, 1967), p. 72, fig. 62.
• Roy Sieber, Anspach Collection, exh. cat. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1968), no. 77.
• George Nelson Preston, The Innovative African Sculptor, exh. cat. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Ithaca College Museum of Art, 1970), p. 37, no. 61, p. 56, no. 61 (discussed).
• George Nelson Preston, African Sculpture: Rare and Familiar Forms from the Anspach Collection, exh. cat. (Potsdam, N.Y.: Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College at Potsdam, 1973), no. 3
• Alain and Françoise Chaffin, L’Art Kota: Les figure de reliquaire (Meudon: Chaffin, 1979), p. 263, no. 159.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), p. 138, fig. 1.

Reliquary

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Mbulu ngulu (image of the dead)

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The Tukad Kad Sequence #04

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Boho na bwete (face of the ancestor)

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Reliquary figure

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Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove (recto); Krishna Fluting (verso)

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Study for a Tiger Hunt

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Raja on Horseback with Attendants

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