Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi)

• Rochester, N.Y., Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Traditional Art of Black Africa, Nov. 14–Dec. 28, 1969, cat. 62.
• Merton D. Simpson Gallery, Inc., advertisement, African Arts 4, 2 (1971), p. 61 (ill.).
• Arnold Rubin, African Accumulative Sculpture: Power and Display, exh. cat. (New York: Pace Gallery, 1974), pp. 51, 67, fig. 103.
• An Artist Collects, Ulfert Wilke, Selections from Five Continents, (University of Iowa, 1975), pp. 8-9. [non-traveling exhibition; mentions piece in introduction, but according to curator at U. of Iowa Art Museum, the work was not displayed in show].
• Raoul Lehaurd, “Art Bakongo: Les Centres de Style,” Arts d”afrique Noire 1 (1989), pp. 218-20, fig. D 1-1-2.
• Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989), pp. 366–67, fig. 954.
• Jack D. Flam and Daniel Shapiro, Western Artists/African Art (New York: Museum for African Art, 1994), p. 16, cat. 5.
• Alain Nicolas and Marianne Sourrieu, Arman et l’Art Africain, exh. cat. (Paris: Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 1996), p. 106, fig. 55.
• Frank Herreman, ed., African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Museum for African Art, 1997), p. 158, fig. 157.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), p. 32, fig. 19.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Male Figure (Nkisi Nkondi),” Art Institute of Chicago, Art Insights postcard (Art Institute of Chicago, 1999).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Power Figure (Nkisi Nkondi),” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29, 2 (2003), pp. 14-15, 94 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide, revised ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 22 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide revised ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), pp. 9, 12 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 55, pp. 140-141 (ill.).

• Rochester, N.Y., Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Traditional Art of Black Africa, Nov. 14–Dec. 28, 1969., cat. 62.
• New York, N.Y., Pace Gallery, African Accumulative Sculpture: Power and Display, Sep. 21–Oct. 19, 1974, pp. 51, 67, fig. 103.
• New York, Museum for African Art, Western Artists/African Art, May 6-Aug. 7, 1994 cat. 5; traveled to Knoxville Museum of Art, 1994-1995, Newport Beach, Calif., Newport Harbor Art Museum, July 1-Sept. 10, 1995, Sacramento, Calif., Crocker Art Museum, Oct. 27-Dec. 31, 1995.
• Marseille, France, Musée d’Arts Africains, Oceaniens, et Amerindiens de Marseille, Arman et l’Art Africain, June 23, 1994–Oct. 30, 1994, cat. 55; traveled to Paris, Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et d’Oceanie, Dec. 3, 1996–Feb. 17, 1997, Cologne, Germany, Rautenstraucht-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Mar.–Aug. 1997, New York, N.Y., Museum for African Art, Oct. 7, 1997–April 17, 1998 [as African Faces, African Figures: the Arman Collection, cat. 147].

Klaus Clausmeyer (died 1968), Düsseldorf, Germany, by 1958. Ludwig Bretschneider (died 1987), Galerie Ludwig Bretschneider, Münich, Germany, by 1959; sold to Ulfert Wilke (died 1987), New York, N.Y. and Iowa City, Iowa, from 1960 [see Ulfert Wilke, an Artist Collects and Wilke correspondence with Bretschneider in curatorial file]. Merton Simpson (died 2013), Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1971; sold to Armand Arman (died 2005), New York, N.Y., 1974 [Pace Gallery, African Accumlative Sculpture, 1974, pp. 51 and 67, no. 103]; sold by the Donald Morris Gallery, New York, N.Y. and Birmingham, Mich. to the Art Institute, 1998.