Art Institute of Chicago
Helmet (Sigi Kun)
Bamana · Mid-19th to mid-20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Simon (d. 1999) and Miche (d. 2007) Escarré, Côte d'Ivoire, and La Baule, France, from the early 1950s (reportedly acquired in Korhogo, Côte d'Ivoire) [according to personal communication from P. Girard in curatorial file; photo documentation in curatorial file]; Miche (d. 2007) Escarré, La Baule, France; sold to Patrick Girard, Lyon, France, April 26, 2002 [personal communication from P. Girard in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Holas, Bohumil. 1978. L'art sacré sénoufo. Abidjan: Nouvelles Éditions Africaines, pp. 272-273 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 12, pp. 48-49 (ill.).
- Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis, “Mapping Senufo: Making Visible Debatable Information and Situated Knowledge,” in Perspectives on Data, ed. Emily Lew Fry and Erin Canning (Art Institute of Chicago, 2022), fig. 13.
- https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593152/03
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