Fish Mask by Bwa
Art Institute of Chicago

Fish Mask

Bwa · Late 19th/early 20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. John J. Klejman (died 1995), J.J. Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1958; sold to the Art Institute, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Published references

  • Charles H. Long, Alpha: The Myths of Creation (New York: George Braziller, 1963), n. pag., pl. 18.
  • Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 68 (ill.).
  • Clara Granzotto and Ken Sutherland. 2023. "Black, Red and White: Characterization of Painting Materials on a Group of Bwa Masks from Burkina Faso" Applied Sciences 13, no. 22: 12240.
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/app132212240

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