Art Institute of Chicago

Helmet Mask (Kono Kun)

Bamana · Early to mid-20th century

Provenance

Ownership history

Unknown private collector, Belgium, from late 1960s [conversation with P. Leloup dated Jan. 30, 1997, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Philippe Leloup and Hélène (ex-Kamer) Leloup, Arts Primitifs, Paris, by 1996 [acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Literature

Kathleen E. Bickford and Cherise Smith, "Art of the Western Sudan," African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 104-119; 114, fig.7 (ill.).
Kathleen Bickford Berzock, For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection (The Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2005), p. 69.
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa (The Cleveland Museum of Art and 5 Continents Press, 2015), p. 258.
Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 10, pp. 44-45 (ill.).
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, “Ambiguité et indétermination dans les arts des sociétés initiatiques ouest-africaines,” in The Postcard Dialogues. Mélanges en l’honneur de Dario Gamboni, Sarah Burkhalter and Laurence
Schmidlin, eds. (Geneva and Lausanne: Art Fiction, 2021): pp. 23-30 (ill.).
Constantine Petridis, Brittany Dolph Dineen, and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, “<a href="https://www.artic.edu/articles/914/a-kono-power-association-helmet-mask"><em>A Kono Power Association Helmet Mask,</em></a>” Art Institute of Chicago ARTicle, June 1, 2021.

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