Statuette of a Female Figure by Ancient Greek
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Statuette of a Female Figure

Ancient Greek · Early Bronze Age, 2600–2400 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Unknown private collection, London, by about 1947 [according to letter in curatorial file]; sold to B.C. Holland of Objects Inc., Chicago, by June 5, 1978 [receipt no. 36220 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1978.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, November 10, 1987 - January 10, 1988; Forth Worth, TX, Kimball Art Museum, March 5, 1988 - May 15, 1988; San Francisco, CA, Legion of Honor, June 25, 1988 - September 25, 1988.
  • Katonah Museum of Art, Ancient Art of the Cyclades, October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 151, November 11, 2012 - present.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Accessions in the Department of Classical Art," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago vol. 74, no. 1 (January-March 1980), p. 8 (ill.)
  • Jack L. Davis, "A Cycladic Figure in Chicago and rhe Non-funereal Use of Cycladic Marble Figures," in J. Lesley Fitton, Cycladica: Studies in Memory of N.P. Goulandris (London: British Museum, 1983), pp. 15-23 (ill).
  • Pat Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1987), pp. 160-161, cat. 38 (ill.).
  • John Griffiths Pedley, “Greek Art” in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), p. 36 (ill.), no. 17.
  • Karen Alexander, "The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," Minerva vol. 5, no. 3 (May/June, 1994), p. 30, fig. 4.
  • <a href=https://archive.artic.edu/cleo><em>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World</em></a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).
  • James Wood, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2000), p. 70 (ill.).
  • Pat Getz-Gentle, Ancient Art of the Cyclades, exh. cat. (Katonah, New York: Katonah Museum of Art 2006), p. 31 (ill.).
  • Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 39.
  • James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 1, p. 24 (ill.).

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