Provenance Information

Pan-Asian collection, Christian Humann (date of acquisition unknown; likely 1960s); on loan to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972-1977; acquired by Robert Ellsworth along with the rest of the collection after Humann's death in 1981; Robert Moore, Los Angeles (date of acquisition unknown); acquired from Robert Moore by Art Passages, 2011; purchased from Art Passages by the Asian Art Museum, 2012, acquisition made possible by Martha Hertelendy, with additional funding from Paul and Kathleen Bissinger, Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston, and Douglas Tilden.

Exhibition Information

Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 25, 1977-January 15, 1978; Seattle Art Museum, March 9 – April 23, 1978; Denver Art Museum, May 26 – July 30, 1978; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, September 15 – October 29, 1978.

Publication Information

Pratapaditya Pal, Sensuous Immortals: A Selection of Sculptures from the Pan-Asian Collection, (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, Mass.: distributed by the MIT Press, 1977), catalog no. 156.
Christie's New York, Indian and Southeast Asian Art Including 20th Century Indian Paintings, Thursday, 23 September 2004, Sale 1409, lot 59 [unsold].

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

Informed persons are convinced the piece was acquired in the 1960s. It was on loan to LACMA by 1972.