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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Pacific Art from the Collection of Harry A. Franklin | 44 | $****** - ****** | SCULPTURE, EASTER ISLAND |
sculpture
55.9 cm (22 in)
Wood, obsidian, likely pig bone (Sus scrofa)
Walter Knoche, Berlin, collected in situ in 1911
Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, acquired from the above in the 1920s
Kurt Mettler, Paris, presumably acquired from the above in 1929
Pierre Loeb, Paris, acquired from the above by early 1930
Helena Rubinstein, Paris, and New York, acquired from the above by 1938
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, The Helena Rubinstein Collection: African and Oceanic Art, Part Three, October 15, 1966, lot 97
Private Collection, acquired at the above auction
Sotheby’s, London, July 14, 1970, lot 75, consigned by the above
Private Collection, Paris, acquired at the above auction
Harry A. Franklin, Beverly Hills, acquired from the above in 1972
PUBLISHED
John Macmillan Brown, The Riddle of the Pacific, London, 1924, p. 142
Walter Knoche, Die Osterinsel. Eine Zusammenfassung der chilenischen Osterinselexpedition, Concepción, 1925, cover and pl. 33
Tepano Jaussen, "L’île de Pâques", Cahiers d'art, Vol. 4, Nos. 2-3, March-April, 1929, p. 114, fig. 186
M. V. Marquetty, ed., Exposition d’art africain et d’art océanien, Paris, 1930, p. 29, cat. no. 416 (listed)
José Pijoán, Summa Artis: Historia general del arte. Vol. I. Arte de los pueblos aborígenes, Madrid, 1931, p. 103, fig. 143
Stéphen Chauvet, L’île de Pâques et ses mystères, Paris, 1935, pl. LIII, fig. 150
Vogue, August 15, 1938, pp. 32-33
Pierre Loeb, Voyage à travers la peinture, Paris, 1946, p. 29 (mentioned)
Edward Dodd, Polynesian Art: the Ring of Fire, New York, 1967, p. 240 (incorrectly listed as being in the collection of the Musée de l'Homme, Paris)
Suzanne Slesin, Over the Top: Helena Rubinstein. Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, Design, New York, 2003, p. 88 (photograph from August 1938 issue of Vogue)
George R. Ellis, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, San Diego, 2009, p. 54, cat. no. 33
Paul G. Bahn, Catherine Orliac, and Michel Orliac, "Picasso and the Easter Island 'Palm'", Rapa Nui Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, May 2015, p. 47, fig. 3 (photograph from The Riddle of the Pacific)
Walter Knoche (Hermann Mückler, ed.), Die Osterinsel. Die chilenische Osterinsel-Expedition von 1911, Wiesbaden, 2015, p. 51, pl. 33 (photograph from The Riddle of the Pacific), and p. 268, pl. 33 (photograph from Die Osterinsel. Eine Zusammenfassung der chilenischen Osterinselexpedition)
Ian Conrich and Hermann Mückler, eds, Rapa Nui - Easter Island: Cultural and Historical Perspectives, Berlin, 2016, p. 24, fig. 3b (photograph from The Riddle of the Pacific)
Charles-Wesley Hourdé and Nicolas Rolland, eds, Galerie Pigalle Afrique Océanie 1930. Une exposition mythique, Paris, 2018, p. 318, cat. no. 416
Galerie du théâtre Pigalle, Paris, Exposition d'art africain et d'art océanien, February 28 - April 1, 1930
Baltimore Museum of Art, Art of the Pacific Islands, (long term loan), July 1, 2000 – June 24, 2008
San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form, January 31, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Easter Island
