Chicago Art Institute, January – March 1984.
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April – May 1990.
Phoenix Art Museum, December 1997 – February 1998.
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, May – June 1998.
Krannert Art Museum und Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinios, Urbana-Champaign, September – November 1998.
The Museum of African Art, New York, February 1999 - .
Davenport Museum of Art, April – Junge 1999.
Rutgers University, 1999.
Bolse Art Museum, February – May 2000.
Encounters: Arts of Africa, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, 2012-current.
Glaze, Anita J. with the 1990 African Art Seminar, Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Cool: African Art from the Faletti Collection, Urbana-Champaign: Krannert Art Museum, 1990.; —- Roberts, Mary Nooter and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997.; --Purpura, Allyson. Encounters: The Arts of Africa. Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. Urbana-Champaign. 2012. Fig. 3.
Appraisal 1983
Benin Bronze Hip Mask (uhunmwun ekhue)
Nigeria, early 17th/ early 18th century
The bottom half with a perimeter of mudfish, closely set dentate design along the nose and continuing across the forehead, triple scarification above each eye, and upper design of coral beads, net and rosette forms.
Height 7 ¼ inches.
Faletti acquired the mask from dealer Michael Oliver, 1983. He was advised by William Fagg in its acquisition. Michael Oliver (New York-based dealer) acquired the mask from collector Dr. Jeffery Hammer (from Indiana, now deceased), in late 1970s-early 1980s. We do not know where Hammer acquired the mask. In a 2012 email correspondence between Purpura and Hammer’s ex-wife in Washington DC, the latter stated that Hammer acquired it from a London or Paris dealer. Purpura is continuing the track the provenance.
Art of Tribe and Early Kingdoms, Chicago Art Institute, 1984, p. 54, number 3-33.
Anita J. Glaze (ed.), Aesthetics of the Sacred and the Cool: African Art from the Faletti Collection, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Urbana-Champaign, 1990, cover illustration, pp.30-31, 34, number 14.
Warren M. Warrens and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 223, number 573.
Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1997, p.71, number 18.