Lidded Container by Northern Nguni
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Lidded Container

Northern Nguni · Mid–late 19th century

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, before 1979 [this and the following according to personal communication with Linda Einfeld, 1987, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Linda Einfeld Sigel, Linda Einfeld Primitive Art, Chicago, Ill.; sold to the Art Institute, 1979.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Knoxville, Tenn., Frank H. McClung Museum, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Jan. 10–May 18, 2003.

Literature

Published references

  • William J. Dewey, The World Moves, We Follow: Celebrating African Art, exh. cat. (Knoxville, Tenn.: Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, 2003), pp. 41, pl. 42.
  • Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 31, fig. 16.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2013), pg. 11.
  • Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 72, pp. 180-181 (ill.).
  • Constantine Petridis, "Making Objects Speak at the Art Institute of Chicago: A New Publication and a Refurbished Arts of Africa Gallery," in Tribal Art magazine (No. 99, Spring 2021), p. 115 (ill.).
  • Y. Biro and C. Petridis (eds.). Les arts africains histoire et dynamique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025), p. 457 (ill.).
  • James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 87, p. 120 (ill.).

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