Object Title
Reclining Female Figure
Measurements
22.86 x 6.985 x 3.81 cm (9 x 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)
Creation Date
ca. 2600 B.C.
Credit Line
Gift of Joann and Gifford Phillips, Class of 1942
Museum Name
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/127311
Provenance Information
Athens art market; Joann and Gifford Phillips, acquired from the above, 1962; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
"Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 142, ill.
Pat Getz-Gentle, "A Cycladic Figure Attributed to the Israel Museum Sculptor," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011): 80–85, fig. 1.
Pat Getz-Gentle, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Traditoin in the Third Millenium B.C. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1987), 86–88, checklist p. 157, pl. 23.
Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 155.
Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 252, fig. 128.
Pat Getz-Gentle, "A Cycladic Figure Attributed to the Israel Museum Sculptor," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011): 80–85, fig. 1.
Pat Getz-Gentle, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Traditoin in the Third Millenium B.C. (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1987), 86–88, checklist p. 157, pl. 23.
Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 155.
Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 252, fig. 128.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Informed judgement that works were outside of the country of modern discovery before 1970
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
Purchased on Athens art market in 1962.