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.