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Personnage féminin, Mezcala, Type M22
作品估价：EUR 25,000 - 35,000
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Personnage féminin, Mezcala, Type M22
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Property from an American Collector
Mezcala Stone Female Figure, Type M22
Late Preclassic, circa 300 - 100 BC
Height: 7 in (17.8 cm)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York (inv. no. G-25)
Isidor Kahane, New York, acquired from the above on May 6, 1958
Thence by descent
Miguel Covarrubias, Mezcala, Ancient Mexican Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1956, p. 15
Miguel Covarrubias and Andre Emmerich, “Mezcala Stone Sculpture,” in Craft Horizons, February, 1957, vol. XVII, n° 1, p. 25
Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt, Mezcala, Ancient Stone Sculpture from Guerrero, Mexico, Geneva, 1992, p. 217, Pl. 268b
Mezcala sculptors combined abstraction, stylization and naturalism particularly in the treatment of anthropomorphic figures. Axe-like stones carved with an expressive series of angles and grooves, transformed into ephemeral human forms which impressed 20th century modernists such as Henry Moore for their timelessness.
This Mezcala figure, densely carved in speckled and polished diorite, exemplifies the use of the firm diagonal lines with the subtly rounded breasts, demarcated hands and the prominent, sharp-jawed head.
Females are rare among the corpus of Mezcala figural sculptures as most are asexual representations, not dissimilar to the majority of portable Olmec stone figures (Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt, Mezcala: Ancient Stone Sculpture from Mexico, Geneva, 1992, p. 101).
Mezcala was first studied in the 1920s by the Mexican artist and collector Miguel Covarrubias, who integrated a scholarly approach along with an artistic appreciation of the evocative lithic stones. Covarrubias included the present impressive example in his publication, Mezcala: Ancient Mexican Sculpture, 1956, p. 15. In the 1960s, Carlo T. E. Gay continued classifying the distinctive substyles. These efforts were brought to a fore in the historic exhibition, Mezcala Stone Sculpture: The Human Figure, at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York.
As Josef Albers aptly commented on the aesthetics of the art of early Mexico "…truly a lesson in the economy of artistic articulation, as art is an act of condensation" (Lauren Hinkson, Josef Albers in Mexico, 2017, p. 19).
For a close parallel, see Gay and Pratt, op. cit., pl. 268 a.
The export of this property from France (including to other Member States of the European Union), as well as export from the European Union, may be subject to one or more export or import licenses being granted. Sotheby’s, upon request and for an administrative fee, may apply for a license to export your Lot(s) outside France.
L’exportation de ce bien hors de France (y compris vers d’autres pays de l’Union Européenne), ainsi que son exportation hors de l’Union Européenne, peuvent-être subordonnées à l’obtention d’une ou plusieurs autorisation(s) d’exporter ou d’importer. Sotheby’s, sur demande et contre paiement de frais administratifs, peut présenter une demande d’autorisation pour exporter votre(vos) Lot(s) hors de France.
Mezcala Stone Female Figure, Type M22
Late Preclassic, circa 300 - 100 BC
Height: 7 in (17.8 cm)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York (inv. no. G-25)
Isidor Kahane, New York, acquired from the above on May 6, 1958
Thence by descent
Miguel Covarrubias, Mezcala, Ancient Mexican Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, 1956, p. 15
Miguel Covarrubias and Andre Emmerich, “Mezcala Stone Sculpture,” in Craft Horizons, February, 1957, vol. XVII, n° 1, p. 25
Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt, Mezcala, Ancient Stone Sculpture from Guerrero, Mexico, Geneva, 1992, p. 217, Pl. 268b
Mezcala sculptors combined abstraction, stylization and naturalism particularly in the treatment of anthropomorphic figures. Axe-like stones carved with an expressive series of angles and grooves, transformed into ephemeral human forms which impressed 20th century modernists such as Henry Moore for their timelessness.
This Mezcala figure, densely carved in speckled and polished diorite, exemplifies the use of the firm diagonal lines with the subtly rounded breasts, demarcated hands and the prominent, sharp-jawed head.
Females are rare among the corpus of Mezcala figural sculptures as most are asexual representations, not dissimilar to the majority of portable Olmec stone figures (Carlo Gay and Frances Pratt, Mezcala: Ancient Stone Sculpture from Mexico, Geneva, 1992, p. 101).
Mezcala was first studied in the 1920s by the Mexican artist and collector Miguel Covarrubias, who integrated a scholarly approach along with an artistic appreciation of the evocative lithic stones. Covarrubias included the present impressive example in his publication, Mezcala: Ancient Mexican Sculpture, 1956, p. 15. In the 1960s, Carlo T. E. Gay continued classifying the distinctive substyles. These efforts were brought to a fore in the historic exhibition, Mezcala Stone Sculpture: The Human Figure, at the Museum of Primitive Art in New York.
As Josef Albers aptly commented on the aesthetics of the art of early Mexico "…truly a lesson in the economy of artistic articulation, as art is an act of condensation" (Lauren Hinkson, Josef Albers in Mexico, 2017, p. 19).
For a close parallel, see Gay and Pratt, op. cit., pl. 268 a.
The export of this property from France (including to other Member States of the European Union), as well as export from the European Union, may be subject to one or more export or import licenses being granted. Sotheby’s, upon request and for an administrative fee, may apply for a license to export your Lot(s) outside France.
L’exportation de ce bien hors de France (y compris vers d’autres pays de l’Union Européenne), ainsi que son exportation hors de l’Union Européenne, peuvent-être subordonnées à l’obtention d’une ou plusieurs autorisation(s) d’exporter ou d’importer. Sotheby’s, sur demande et contre paiement de frais administratifs, peut présenter une demande d’autorisation pour exporter votre(vos) Lot(s) hors de France.