Chukwunonso Ibe

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Mask (copper alloy; 26.7 cm [10.5 in] high x 18.4 cm [7.2 in] wide x 14.0 cm [5.5 in] deep) of a bearded man with cap, made by the Yoruba artist Ali Amonikoyi ca. 1910. Born in Nigeria, Amonikoyi later emigrated and was active in present-day Ghana and Togo. He was a master metalworker who developed a technique for imitating Yoruba gelede masks, normally made of wood, in metal. The resulting masks were not used in dance performances, as was typical for their wooden cousins, but rather placed on graves as memorials.

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time since its recent rediscovery.

The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona — a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, in what is Ghana today — was painted in 1897 and depicts the prince in profile against loose brushstrokes of florals.

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