Provenance Information

Billy Pearson, Los Angeles; [Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles]; [Lacy Gallery, Los Angeles]; [Ancient Art of the New World, Inc., New York]; Joanne and Andrall Pearson collection, New York, 2002–2018

Exhibition Information

2004 Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico. The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Publication Information

Butterwick, Kristi. Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture From West Mexico: The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection. New York, New Haven, London: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004, no. 38, pp. 85–86.

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This work was offered and accepted as a promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, when it was exhibited and published as part of the The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection. This work is one of three offered together by the Pearson family in an unprecedented opportunity to obtain three striking West Mexican sculptures likely by the same artist or workshop, perhaps portraying members of the same family or lineage.