About This Artwork

Ntzinyanga Qwabe (c. 1900–?)
Zulu
South Africa

Pair of Storage-Rack Panels with Figures, Late 1920s/1940s

Wood with burnt wood
90.2 x 6.4 cm (35 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.) (each)
Restricted gift of Cynthia and Terry E. Perucca and Marshall Field, 2009.2.1-2

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Grete Mannheim (died 1986), South Africa and Calif., between 1936 and 1949; by descent to her daughter Hanna Baer (died 2008), Fla., 1986; given to Gary Van Wyk and Lisa Brittan, Axis Gallery, N.J., 2007; sold to the Art Institute, 2009.