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Head Fragment from a Large Ceremonial Jar
Tiwanaku · 700–800 CE
Provenance
Ownership history
- Eduard Gaffron (1861–1931), Lima, Peru, from 1892 to 1912, then Berlin, from 1912 [History of the Department report (Joanne Behrens, 1985) and correspondence in curatorial file]; by descent to his children Mercedes Gaffron (1908–1993), Berlin then Durham, NC, and Hans Gaffron (1902–1979), Berlin then Chicago [correspondence and documentation of the Gaffron Collection in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1955.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>Ancient Arts of the Andes</em>, Jan. 25–Mar. 21, 1954, cat.; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1954; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 15–Sept. 15, 1954.
Literature
Published references
- Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, <em>Kunstgeschichte des Alten Peru</em> (Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1924), pl. 41 (ill.).
- Walter Lehmann with Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, eds., <em>The Art of Old Peru</em> (Ernest Benn, 1924), pl. 41 (ill.).
- Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, <em>Old Peruvian Art</em> (E. Weyhe, 1936), pl. 26 (ill.).
- Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, <em>The Art of Ancient Peru</em> (Praeger, 1952),, pl. 109 (ill.).
- Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, <em>The Art of Ancient Peru</em>, 2nd ed. (Praeger, 1954), pl. 109 (ill.).
- Wendell C. Bennett, <em>Ancient Arts of the Andes</em>, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1954), 74, fig. 81.
- Walter Lehmann and Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering, <em>The Art of Old Peru</em> (Hacker Art Books, 1975), pl. 41 (ill.)
- Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 336-337, cat. 301 (ill.).
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