Mother-and-Child Figure (Bwanga bwa Chibola)

1. Jaap (Jacob) Wiegersma, Utrecht, 1937. Mr. A.F.C.A. van Heyst (died 1962), Rotterdam, by 1962; by descent to Mr. J. van Heyst, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1962-1980; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Nov. 14, 1980, lot 227, to Stuart Hollander, St. Louis, Missouri; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago (via Thomas S. Alexander III [Alexander Gallery, St. Louis]), 1993.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, N.Y., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art and Oracle, Apr. 24–July 30, 2000, cat. 42.

• Warren Robbins and Nancy Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1989), pp. 436 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis, "Of Mothers and Sorcerers: A Luluwa Maternity Figure," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (1997), pp. 182-195; 187 (ill.).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts, vol. 32, no. 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 18-35; 22 (ill.).
• Alissa LaGamma with John Pemberton, III. Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination, exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, pp. 66-67.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Maternity Figure,”Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 16-17, 94 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis, Luluwa: Central African Art Between Heaven and Earth (Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2018), pp. 136-137, fig. 116.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 60, pp. 148-149 (ill.).

Crouching Figure

Art Institute of Chicago

Male Power Figure (Bwanga) attached to a Staff

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Art Institute of Chicago

Martin Vanden Bogaert Desjardins

Art Institute of Chicago

Remembrance of Italy

Art Institute of Chicago

Priest and Boy

Art Institute of Chicago

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884

Art Institute of Chicago

Fishing Craft near the Cliffs at Collioure

Art Institute of Chicago

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