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Standing Male Figure

CultureCambodian
Date11th century
MediumGray sandstone with traces of gold leaf
DimensionsOverall: 28 1/2 inches (72.39 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-34
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 225
Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 2-December 11, 1949, no cat.

Art in Asia and the West, San Francisco Museum of Art, October 28-December 1, 1957, no. 8f as Standing Figure.

Khmer Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, New York, November 30, 1961-January 28, 1962, no. 6K as Standing Figure of a Deity.

Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 9-December 7, 1969, no. 23 as Standing Male Figure.




Gallery Label
While this sculpture lacks attributes and other iconographic marks, it can be tentatively identified as the Hindu god Shiva, who often wears his hair in a similar topknot. The other great Hindu god, Vishnu, wears a crown.
Provenance

With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1941-1946 [1];

Purchased from Paul Mallon by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

NOTES:

[1] This sculpture was on loan from Mallon to the Nelson-Atkins from July 1941 until its purchase in 1946.

Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 191, (repro.).

San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West, exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: H. S. Crocker Co., Inc., 1957), 18, 31, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 238, (repro.).

Asia House Gallery, Khmer Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: Carnegie Press, Inc., 1961), 23, (repro.).

Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969), 61, 105, (repro.).

Laurence Sickman, “Stone Sculpture of India and South-East Asia,” Apollo, 97 (March 1973): 84, fig. 4 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 2, Art of the Orient, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 147, (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 392, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 282, (repro.).

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Kimberly Masteller, Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia: the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kanas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 2016), 52-53, (repro.).

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