Provenance Information

[André Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1960’s]; Guido and Nelly di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1960’s-2013; Claudia Quentin, New York, 2013-2021

Exhibition Information

On view in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 22, 2015-April 26, 2016 (TR.561.2014; L.2015.14)

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

The work has a reported provenance from 1960’s, when it was acquired by Guido and Nelly di Tella, Buenos Aires, from dealer André Emmerich, New York. The di Tellas sold the Wari tunic to Claudia Quentin, Buenos Aires, in 2013 at which time Mrs. di Tella informed Mrs. Quentin that the tunic came from Andre Emmerich. The di Tella children have confirmed that their parents bought from Mr. Emmerich in the 1960’s and remember Precolumbian textiles in a protected niche in their home since that time. In addition, the conservation technique applied to the Tunic is of a type known from the 1950’s and 1960’s and not used in recent decades.

Provenance Information

By 1965, Alan C. Lapiner, New York; 1965-2018, private New York collection (object #5)

Exhibition Information

none

Publication Information

none

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, the Princeton University Art Museum can make an informed judgment that the object was outside its probable country of modern discovery before 14 November 1970. The collector maintained a sequential inventory of their collection with the year of each acquisition specified. The accuracy of the list is demonstrated by a number of works in the inventory that were either published in other collections prior to the collector’s acquisition date or published or exhibited shortly after the acquisition, in each instance with the appropriate ownership history documented. According to the inventory, the collector acquired this work in 1965 from Alan C. Lapiner, a New York art dealer.

Provenance Information

Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, 1990s, by purchase; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.

Exhibition Information

Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Albuquerque Museum of Art & History; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville. 2012-2013.

Publication Information

Reents-Budet, Dorie. Exploring art of the ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2012.

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

Communications between the Walters Art Museum and the donor of this promised gift began in April 2005.