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MGS-201327

A Maya Figure

Mexico

24.1 cm (9.5 in)

Provenance

Sales Results

Lot 30, Sotheby's, New York — May 12, 1983
Important Pre-Columbian Art
Estimate: Not spec.
Lot 163, Sotheby's, New York — Nov 23, 1992
Pre-Columbian Art
Estimate: Not spec.
Lot 19, Sotheby's, New York — Jun 18, 2026
Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Estimate: USD 8,000–12,000
Sold: USD 32,000
USD 32,000

Publications

  • Gordon Bailey Washburn, ed., Exotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations: Collection of Jay C. Leff, Pittsburgh, 1959, p. 75, cat. no. 480 (listed)

  • Elizabeth K. Easby, Ancient Art from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, New York, 1966, p. 108, cat. no. 480 (illustrated)

  • Américas, Vol. 23, No. 6, June - July, 1971, p. 52 (illustrated)

  • Katheryn M. Linduff, Ancient Art of Middle America: Selections from the Jay C. Leff Collection, Huntington, West Virginia, 1974, n.p., fig. 135 (illustrated)

Exhibitions

  • The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Exotic Art from Ancient and Primitive Civilizations: Collection of Jay C. Leff, October 15, 1959 - January 3, 1960

  • The Brooklyn Museum, New York, Ancient Art from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, November 22, 1966 - March 5, 1967

  • The Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia, Ancient Art of Middle America: Selections from the Jay C. Leff Collection, February 17 - June 9, 1974