Man's Robe

Textiles

1875/1920 (before 1920)

Yoruba
Cloth woven in Ilorin, Nigeria; probably Hausa or Nupe
Needlework and assembly in northern or central Nigeria
Coastal West Africa

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Textiles

Culture: Yoruba
Title: Man's Robe
Place: Nigeria (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1875–1920
Medium: Cotton, strips of warp-resist dyed striped plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; embroidered with silk in open chain stitches; faced with cotton, warp-faced stripe plain weave and plain weave
Dimensions: 125.1 × 362.8 cm (49 1/4 × 103 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Maurice D. Galleher Endowment
Reference Number: 1997.59

Christies South Kensington, March 21, 1983, sale no. 2103, lot 206, pl.9.
Sphinx Galleries Catalogue
Constantine Petridis, ed., The Language of Beauty in African Art, ex. cat. (Yale University Press, 2022), cat. no. 126, p. 179 (ill.).

New York, N.Y., The Center for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, Sep. 21, 1989-Jan. 7, 1990, cat. 241; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10-April 1, 1990; Washington, D.C., The National Museum of African Art, May 8-Aug. 26, 1990; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sep. 26-Dec. 9, 1990; The New Orleans Museum of Art, Jan. 11-March 24, 1991; Atlanta, Ga., The High Museum of Art, April 23-June 16, 1991; The Phoenix Art Museum, Sep. 4-Oct. 6, 1991
Art Institute of Chicago, Department of African and Amerindian Art, Gallery 141, Ordinary Made Extraordinary: African Textiles, Apr. 17–Aug. 1, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Language of Beauty in African Art,” Nov. 20, 2022 - Feb. 27, 2023, cat. no. 126.

Unknown collection, London, UK, before 1925; by descent to W.W. Arnold (see note in Christies catalogue), by 1983; sold, Christies, London, UK, March 21, 1983, lot 206, to Spink Fine Art, London, UK; sold to Bud Holland (died 1994), by 1989, Chicago; sold to Dr. Jeffrey Hammer and Ms. Deborah Stokes, Chicago, by 1989; sold to Mr. Russell L. Wade, Washington, D.C., before 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997.

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