Art Institute of Chicago
Goldweight: Seated Figure
Asante · Mid–19th/mid–20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ladislas Segy (L. Szecsi; died 1988), Segy Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1955; sold to Raymond Wielgus (died 2010) and Laura Wielgus (died 2003), Chicago, Ill., by 1958; given to the Art Institute, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Diane Pelrine, "Affinities of Form: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection," (Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1996), p. 215.
- Ladislav Segy, African Sculpture (New York: Dover Publications, 1958), fig. 45 (ill.).
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