Art Institute of Chicago
Male Face Mask (Zauli)
Guro · Possibly early or mid-20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mathias Komor Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1975 [acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1976.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, "The Language of Beauty in African Art", April 3-July 31, 2022; Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 20, 2022 - Feb. 27, 2023, cat. no. 254.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1975-76 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1976), pp. 56-57 (ill.).
- Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), p. 172 (ill.).
- Bouttiaux, Anne-Marie. 2016. Guro: The Permanence of Change. Visions of Africa. 5 Continents Editions, pl. 9 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 23, pp. 78-79 (ill.).
- Constantine Petridis, ed., The Language of Beauty in African Art, ex. cat. (Yale University Press, 2022), cat. no. 254, p. 278 (ill.).
- Y. Biro and C. Petridis (eds.). Les arts africains histoire et dynamique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025), p. 381 (ill.).
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