African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art

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Lot 169
  • 169

A Large Mezcala Stone Figure, Late Preclassic, ca. 300-100 B.C.

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

with massive head and evocative features defined by diagonal facial grooves, the torso distinguished by long arms carved in relief and folded on the chest with hands beneath the uplifted chin; in deep green metadiorite.

Provenance

Jay C. Leff Collection
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Important African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art from the Jay C. Leff Collection, October 10 and 11, 1975, lot 349, illus.
Acquired by a Canadian private collector from the above

 

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Exotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations, Collection of Jay C. Leff, October 15, 1959-January 3, 1960, fig. 608
Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, November 22, 1966-March 5, 1967, no. 26
Ontario, The Art Gallery of York University, Human Figures through the Ages from the Finlayson Collection, February 10-March 3, 1976, fig. 16, illus.

 

Literature

Gordon Washburn ed., Exotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations, Collection of Jay C. Leff, 1959, fig. 608
Elizabeth Kennedy Easby, Ancient Art of Latin America from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, 1967, cat. no. 26