• gouache on paper, 1934
• signed and dated '34 upper right recto
• paper size 25⅜" x 19⅝" (64.5 x 50 cm.)
• Provenance:  Dr. Robert H. Alexander, New York
• Exhibited:  Tchelitchew: Paintings - Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, NY, September 1942 - January 1943, no.39
• Literature:  James Thrall Soby, Tchelitchew Paintings paintings, Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1942, p. 43, no.39
• Literature:  Eugene Berman - Pavel Tchelitchew:
  Neo-Romantic Master Works from the 1930's & 1940's,
  Gallery of Surrealism, NY, 2005, p.10

To the latter part of 1933 belong three portraits of the African dancer, Feral Benga, among them The Mask of Light....
   -James Thrall Soby, Tchelitchew: Paintings-Drawings, MoMA, NY, 1942, p.25