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1. Pierre Vérité (1900-1993), Vérité Gallery, Paris, France, from 1948 [according to Janine Vérité statement in Hôtel Drouot, Arts primitifs, 2006, p. ix]; by descent to Claude Vérité, Paris, France, 1993; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, June 17, 2006, Arts Primitifs: Collection Vérité, lot 197, to the Art Institute [import document dated 24/03/2006 in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, France, Galerie Leleu, Chefs-d’oeuvre de l’Afrique Noire, June 12-29, 1952, no. 92.
• Paris, France, Cercle Volney, Les Arts Africains, June-July 1955, no. 229.

• Bernard Champigneulle, J. Leleu présente "Chefs d'oeuvre de l'Afrique noire" sous le haut patronage de M. Albert Sarrault (Paris: Hôtel J. Leleu, June 12-29, 1952), p.? ill.?
• Cercle Volney, Les Arts Africains, exh. cat. (Paris: Les Amis de l’Art, 1955), p. 61, no. 229.
• Rene Huyghe and Jean Rudel, L’Art et le Monde Moderne, Vol. 1 1880-1920 (Paris: Editions Larouse, 1969), p. 317.
• Louis Perrois, “The Art of Gabon in the Vérité Collection,” Tribal Art, no. 40 (Spring 2006), p. 40, fig. 5.
• Enchères Rive Gauche & Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Arts primitifs: Collection Vérité, sale cat. (Hôtel Drouot , June 17-18, 2006), pp. xxxv, 218-19, lot 197.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 2005-2006 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. cover, 112.
• Simon Hewitt, “Moment of Truth,” Art & Auction 28, 10 (June 2006), p. 61 (ill.).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Reliquary Head (Nlo Nieri),” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, 1 (2008), pp. 10-11 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Pocket Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), p. 2 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), p. 15 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 53, pp. 136-137 (ill.).

Half Figure (Nlo Byeri)

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Warm Autumn (Nuanqiu)

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Landscape in the Style of Ancient Masters: after Fang Congyi

Art Institute of Chicago

Hat (Nlo-o-ngo)

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Fei Jiang-fang with a Crane

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Handle Spout Vessel in the Form of an Anthropomorphic Owl with Feline Fangs, Holding a Serpent

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Pendant in the Shape of a Claw or Fang

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Prestige Sword and Sheath (Ntsakh or Fa)

Art Institute of Chicago

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