On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Peg-based sculpture of standing man,
350–100 BCE
Maya
Late Formative Period (Providencia phase)
2020-328
More About This Object
Information
Title
Peg-based sculpture of standing man
Dates
350–100 BCE
Medium
Basalt
Dimensions
h. 59.4 cm (23 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund
Object Number
2020-328
Place Made
North America, Guatemala, Patzún or vicinity, Maya area
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
March 19, 1965, sold by Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (inv. no. 10052) to Mr. and Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz, Detroit [1]; May 3, 2011, sold to Ancient Art of the New World, Miami; February 29, 2012, sold to The Fiore Arts Collection [2]; June 29, 2020, The Fiore Arts Collection sale, Christie’s Paris, lot 19, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] As per Stendahl ledger and invoice to Schwartz, copies in curatorial file. Corroborated by correspondence from Lee Parsons to Schwartz April 2, 1965, and from Doris Stone to Schwartz, Nov. 27, 1968, copies in curatorial file.
[2] According to Christie’s auction catalogue.
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Doris Stone, Pre-Columbian Man Finds Central America: The Archaeological Bridge (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 1972)
, p. 69 (right) -
Cecelia F. Klein, Art of Pre-Columbian America: February 15 through March 26, 1976 (Rochester, MI: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, 1976)
, pl. 63 - Parsons, Lee Allen Parsons, "The Origins of Maya Art: Monumental Stone Sculpture of Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, and the Southern Pacific Coast", Studies in Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, Dumbarton Oaks, vol. 28, 1986, fig. 37 (illus.)
