We Mask, Côte d’Ivoire

Paul Guillaume, Paris, acquired before 1918
Sir Jacob Epstein, London, probably acquired from the above
Christie’s, London, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities and Primitive Works of Art of Africa, Asia, North and South America, Oceania and Australasia from The Epstein Collection, December 15, 1961, lot 86
Sir John Richardson, New York, acquired at the above auction

The Modern Gallery, New York, African Negro Sculpture, January 26 – February 9, 1918
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, The Epstein Collection of Primitive and Exotic Sculpture, March 25 – April 23, 1960

Marius de Zayas, African Negro Sculpture, New York, 1918, n.p., unnumbered plate
André Portier and François Poncetton, Les art sauvages. Afrique, Paris, 1927 (and reprinted in 1956), pl. XXXVII, cat. no. 62
William Fagg, The Epstein Collection of Tribal and Exotic Sculpture, London, 1960, n.p., cat. no. 131 (listed)
Ezio Bassani and Malcolm D. McLeod, Jacob Epstein, Collector, Milan, 1989, p. 18, fig. 15, and p. 85, cat. no. 42