Final Judgment (Juízo final)

Contemporary Art

1961

Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
Mozambican, 1936-2011

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Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Malangatana Valente Ngwenya
Title: Final Judgment (Juízo final)
Place: Mozambique (Building address)
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.: 1961
Medium: Oil on hardboard
Dimensions: 121.5 × 149 cm (48 × 58 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Wilson L. Mead Trust and N.W. Harris Purchase Prize funds
Reference Number: 2021.33
Copyright: ©2020 Fundação M alangatana Valente Ngwenya

Hendrik Folkerts, Felicia Mings, and Constantine Petridis. “Works in the Exhibition,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern—The Modern Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2021), digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/10/works-in-the-exhibition, cat. 14.
Hendrik Folkerts, “Introduction: Looking in All Directions,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern—The Modern Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2021), artic.edu/digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/5/looking-in-all-directions, para 5, 6, 7, fig. 3 (color ili.).
Allison Langley, Katrina Rush, and Julie Simek, “‘The Complete Painter’: Malangatana’s Approach to Painting, 1959–75,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern—The Modern Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2021), artic.edu/digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/9/malangatanas-approach-to-painting, para 7, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, fig. 3 (color ill.), fig. 5 (color ill.).
Mário Pissarra, “Deep Ambivalences: Malangatana’s Anti/Colonial Aesthetic,” in Malangatana: Mozambique Modern—The Modern Series at the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2021), artic.edu/digital-publications/34/malangatana-mozambique-modern/8/malangatanas-anticolonial-aesthetic, para 27, fig. 4 (color ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, Malangatana: Mozambique Modern, July 30–Nov.16, 2020, cat. 14.

The artist (died 2011), Mozambique and Portugal; by descent to the family, Maputo, Mozambique [personal communication from the familly, 2019]; Fundação Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, Maputo, Mozambique; sold through Gallery MOMO, Cape Town, to the Art Institute of Chicago, April 13, 2021.

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