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Horse-Headed Incarnation of God Vishnu (Vajimukha)
Pre-Angkorean · Pre–Angkor period, 7th–8th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr Kanusat, Bangkok (unknown dates). With Nik Douglas (1944–2012), Anguilla, British West Indies, by January 4, 1988; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka, IL, January 12, 1988; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, IL, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1997; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, Mar. 11, 2002 and April 23, 2008]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 15, 2016.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection</em>, Aug. 2–Oct. 26, 1997, cat. 41.
Literature
Published references
- Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, <em>A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection</em> (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 42 (ill.), 281, cat. 41.
- Stephen Little, “Southeast Asian Sculptures from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection”, <em>Orientations</em>, vol. 28, no. 7 (July/Aug. 1997), 57, fig. 1.
- Eisenberg, Jerome M. 1997. “Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Alsdorf Collection”, <em>Minerva</em> (Sept./October), 17, fig. 8.
- Robert L. Brown, “An Aesthetic Encounter: Khmer Art from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam”, <em>Orientations</em>, vol. 42, no. 3 (April 2011), 53, fig. 4.
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