Male Figure (Singiti)

1. Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium, purchased the work in Befeka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1969/1970 [personal communication with P. Dartevelle, 2001, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Pierre Langlois, Paris, by 1972 [as above]. John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1972 [acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1972.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Ill., Columbia College Art Gallery, “Spirits and Spouses, Gender Roles in African Art,” Feb. 12–Apr. 5, 1996, no cat.

• Allen Wardwell, Two Luba Figures in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 67, no. 3, (May-June, 1973), pp. 14-17 (Ill.).
• Recent Acquisitions, African Arts, vol. VI. no. 3 (Spring 1973), pg. 71.
• François Neyt. 1977. La Grand Statuaire Hemba du Zaire, Louvain-la-Neuve, pp. 200-201.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 64, pp. 156-157 (ill.).

Singiti (commemorative portrait of a chief)

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Lupona (royal seat)

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Mask: Monkey

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Figure: Janus (Kabeja)

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Prestige Stool: Female Caryatid

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Figure: Janus Couple (Kabeja)

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Ladle

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Half Figure: Female

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