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Artworks
Mossi Artist
Mask, karanga, Yatenga style, Late 19th-early 20th centuryBurkina Faso
Wood
Height: 65 3/8 inches (166.1 cm)
Provenance:
Ex Henri Kamer, New York/Paris
Ex collection The Art Institute of Chicago (inventory number 61.576)
Christie’s New York, 22 November 1996, lot 114 (Sold by the Order of the Board of Trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago)
Estate of Thomas G.B. WheelockPublished:
Christopher Roy. Art of the Upper Volta Rivers. Meudon: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1987. p.113, cat. 78
Christopher D. Roy, Thomas G.B. Wheelock. Land of the Flying Masks: Art and Culture in Burkina Faso, The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel, 2007. cat 120
Exhibited:
Denver Art Museum, March-April 1964SoldFurther images
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