Art Institute of Chicago

Figure Screen (Duein Fubara)

Kalabari · Early 20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

Unknown owner, Rivers State, Nigeria, by early 1990s [this and the following according to personal communication from Charlie Davis, Davis Gallery, in acquisition documentation]; to unknown owner, Lomé, Togo, from early 1990s; sold to Charlie Davis, Davis Gallery, New Orleans, La., from 1994; sold to the Art Institute, 2005.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Kathleen Bickford Berzock, "Ancestral Altar Screen (Duein Fubara),” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32, 1 (2006), pp. 12-13, 94.
Kathleen Bickford Berzock, "Ancestral Altar Screen (Duein Fubara), Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies, vol. 32, no. 1 (2006), pp. 12-13 (ill.).
Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 46, pp. 118-119 (ill.).

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