Provenance Information

Purchased for MCCM by Robert Walzer [Nathan Rubin - Ida Ladd Family Foundation], Georgetown, Connecticut, July 2000, possibly from Kapoor Galleries, New York, New York.

Exhibition Information

MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2004 - April 4, 2021
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, August 28, 2021 - Present

Publication Information

Janet Kamphorst, In Praise of Death: History and Poetry in Medieval Marwar (South Asia) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008), 240.
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Highlights of the Collections (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2011), 123.
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Everyday Hinduism (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), 29, Figure 1.2.

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

Was purchased as a gift for the MCCM before 2008.

Provenance Information

[With Peter Sharer, New York]; in collection of Jack Josephson, New York (from Sharer); Charles D. Kelekian, New York (from Josephson)]; from 1982 and until 2020, collection of Nanette B. Kelekian, New York

Exhibition Information

None.

Publication Information

None.

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

The object qualifies as an exception to the 1970 rule because Nanette Kelekian signed a will prior to 2008 that documents her intent to bequeath the work to the Museum. Additionally, Charles D. Kelekian (d. 1982) had a practice of collecting many works once owned by the Dikran G. Kelekian gallery, dissolved in 1952. He transferred many of these works to his daughter, Nanette, during his lifetime. Her records indicate this work was transferred after 1970.

Provenance Information

[R. H. Ellsworth Ltd. , New York, until 1987; sold to Irving]; Florence and Herbert Irving , New York (1987–2019; donated to MMA)

Exhibition Information

None

Publication Information

None

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

The object was designated as a promised gift by the Irvings in 1989.

Provenance Information

Ramesh Kapoor Gallery, New York, December 21, 2004; The Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn. and New York, 2004–2006; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Exhibition Information

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 09/18/2007–01/13/2008

Publication Information

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 168, pl. 150.

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

N/A

Provenance Information

Beurdeley et Cie., Paris, by 1981; sold to Michael and Georgia de Havenon, New York, October 15, 1981 (as Thailand, Lopburi, 14th century); on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–2020; gift to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2020

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

N/A

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

In order to put object into the public domain and facilitate further research.

Provenance Information

From a private American collection. Acquired in 1986 from the Kapoor Galleries, New York.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Research into ownership by prior donors, dealers and collectors still ongoing. YUAG accepted this gift in order to bring the object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

Sotheby's, lot 301, December 15, 1992; Ex-French-American collection, 1992; Kapoor Galleries, New York, February 2011; Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., to 2017; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Research into ownership by prior donors, dealers and collectors still ongoing. YUAG accepted this gift in order to bring the object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

Kapoor Galleries, New York, August 2001; Rubin-Ladd Foundation, Georgetown, Conn., to 2017; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Exhibition Information

N/A

Publication Information

"Acquisitions July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017," https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2017.pdf (accessed December 1, 2017).

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

N/D

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

Research into ownership by prior donors, dealers and collectors still ongoing. YUAG accepted this gift in order to bring the object into a free, publicly accessible, educational institution, where it could be studied, displayed, and publicized.

Provenance Information

Private collection, Belgium, possibly by the late 1950s; purchased by Samuel Pascasio, New York, by the early 1970s; [Alphonse Jax, New York], by the early 1970s; purchased by Assen and Christine Nicolov, Seattle, Washington, May 27, 2000

Exhibition Information

None known

Publication Information

None known

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

Based on the results of provenance research, as well as cumulative facts and circumstances, this Aztec seated figure was outside its probable country of modern discovery (Mexico) by 1970. Per email correspondence with previous owner Alphonse Jax, the piece was purchased from Samuel Pascasio, who Jax remembers having documents confirming its placement in a private Belgian collection by the late 1950s. While there is no documentation to corroborate, photographs of the work received from Jax bear labels on their verso that indicate they were taken in Belgium. Further provenance research will be ongoing, but the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) can conclude, based on the aforementioned facts, that the work was likely in Belgium before 1970. This work cleared a search conducted by the Art Loss Register. SAM has in its collection a smaller example of an Aztec standing figure, representing a priest-follower of the god Tlaloc (god of fertility). Exhibited together, these works provide an opportunity to present visual components of complex Aztec cosmology and a range of stylistic variables in this art form.

Provenance Information

Purchased from Moonsail Ltd, Middlesex, UK, by Jeffrey B. Soref on November 26, 1982; Collection of Jeffrey B. Soref from 1982 to 2016; Purchased from Jeffrey B. Soref by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016.

Exhibition Information

The work has been on loan to and on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1994.

Publication Information

None

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

The work has been on loan to and on display at the Metropolitan Museum for 22 years (1994-2016). This upper section of a standing Bodhisattva figure is a rare and iconographically important work of the Mathuran school of Buddhist art.