Art Institute of Chicago
Male Face Mask (Zamble)
Guro · Possibly early or mid–20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown private collection, Paris [personal communication from J. Germain in curatorial file]; sold to Galerie Lucas Ratton, Paris, by 2015 [Lucas Ratton, 2015, pp. 88 and 89]; sold to Galerie Jacques Germain, Montreal, 2015 [personal communication from J. Germain in curatorial file; Jacques Germain, 2017, pp. 146-147]; sold to the Art Institute, 2017.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Lucas Ratton, Animaux, 2015, cat. pp. 88 and 89.
Literature
Published references
- Lucas Ratton. 2015. Animaux, exh. cat. (Galerie Lucas Ratton, Paris), pp. 88 and 89 (ill.)
- Jacques Germain. 2017. Art Ancien de l'Afrique Noire, vol. VIII (Paris and Montreal, Jacques Germain Arts Ethnographiques, Inc.), pp. 146-147 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 24, pp. 78-79 (ill.).
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