Art Institute of Chicago
Figure (Mbulu Ngulu)
Kota · Late 19th-early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Henri (died 1992) and Hélène Kamer (later Hélène Leloup), Henri A. Kamer Gallery, New York, by 1968 [incoming purchase consideration documented in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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. 54.
Literature
Published references
- Allen Wardwell, “New Acquisitions of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts, vol. 4, no. 1 (1970), p. 19, fig. 7.
- Louis Perrois, “L’Art Kota-Mahongwe,” Arts d’Afrique Noire, vol. 20 (Winter 1976), pp. 1–37; p. 33 (ill.).
- Christie's, Paris, Collection Vérité: Arts d'Afrique, d'Océanie et d'Amérique du Nord, Nov. 21, 2017, lot 91 (illus.).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 54, pp. 138-139 (ill.).
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