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Lot 91
  • 91

Manteau funéraire à décor de singes stylisés Culture Chancay Côte centrale du Pérou 1200-1400 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Culture Chancay
  • Manteau funéraire à décor de singes stylisés
  • Laine tissée multicolore sur fond noir
  • h. 198 cm ; 78 in et l. 105 cm ; 41 1/4 in

Provenance

Collection Steinhardt, New York
Galerie Merrin, New York, 1986
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 532-39

Exhibited

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 janvier-24 mars 1992, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, 11 avril-15 juin 1992, Barcelone, Fondation la Caixa, 25 novembre 1992-24 janvier 1993, Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992
Lisbonne, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 23 mars-4 juin 1995
Barcelone, Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí, Camino del Inca, el pasado de los Andes, 9 juin 2011-septembre 2012

Literature

" Sur les toits de New York. Un appartement moderne signé Myron Goldfinger ", in Connaissance des Arts, Septembre 1987, p. 74
Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 112, p. 309
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 111
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 114, p. 349

Condition

Bon état général au sujet rare, tissu parfois taché par la momie. Fragment d'un manteau Good condition overall, and a rare subject. The textile stained in places by the mummy. Fragment of a mantle
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