
Art Institute of Chicago
Pendant
Luba · 19th/20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Pierre Dartevelle, L’Impasse St. Jacques, Brussels, by 1995; sold to James Tyler, Washington, D.C., by 1995; sold, Sotheby’s, N.Y., May 4, 1995, 6696, lot 107, to Richard Faletti (died 2006), Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix, Ariz., 1985; given to the Art Institute, 2006.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Phoenix Art Museum, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Dec. 13, 1997–Feb. 8, 1998, cat. 66b; traveled to Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, May 14–June 28, 1998, Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 18–Nov. 1, 1998, New York, N.Y., The Museum for African Art, Jan. 29-Mar. 28, 1999, Davenport Museum of Art, April 18–June 13, 1999, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Sept. 12-Nov. 24, 1999, and The Boise Art Museum, Feb. 26–May 7, 2000.
Literature
Published references
- Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997), pg. 126, cat. 66b (ill.).
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