Male Face Mask (N'tomo)

1. Henri (died 1992) and Hélène (ex-Kamer) Leloup, Henri A. Kamer Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1960 [Zahan 1960, pl. 3C, object listed as Collection Henri Kamer]; sold to the Art Institute, 1961 [purchase consideration documentation in object file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Denver Art Museum, Art of Africa, March 22-May 17, 1964.
• Flint, Mich., Flint Institute of Arts, The Art of Black Africa, Feb. 8-April 5, 1970, cat. 6 (ill.).

• Dominique Zahan, Societe d’Initiation Bambara (Paris: Mouton, 1960), pl. 3C.
• Allen Wardwell, “Six New Acquisitions. Sculpture of the Bambara,” AIC Quarterly 56, 1 (March 1962), p. 3, fig. 4.
• Charles H. Long, Alpha: The Myths of Creation (New York: George Braziller, 1963), pl. 19.
• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), fig. 59.
• Allen Wardwell, “Some Notes on a Substyle of the Bambara,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 1 (1966), p. 121, figs. 16 and 17.
• The Art of Black Africa, exh. cat. (Flint Institute of Arts Exhibition, 1970), cat. 6 (ill.).
• Ezio Bassani, “Una bottega di grandi artisti Bambara, 1,” Critica d’Arte 43, fasc. 157-59 (Jan.-June 1978), p. 219, no. 31.
• Ezio Bassani, “Una bottega di grandi artisti Bambara, 2,” Critica d’Arte 43, fasc. 160-162 (July-Dec. 1978), p. 188, figs. 41 and 42.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Art of the Western Sudan; African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 23, 2 (1997), p. 112, fig. 5.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), p. 28, fig. 13.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 9, pp. 42-43 (ill.).

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