Pillar Fragment with an Apsaras
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Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, Asia House Gallery, New York, October 9-December 7, 1969, no. 60 as Pillar with Apsara.
Possibly H. G. Quaritch Wales (1900-1981), at the latest 1942;
Possibly acquired from Wales by C. T. Loo & Co., New York, no. LAP, by 1942-March 1949 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1949.
NOTES:
[1] Included in An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India, C. T. Loo & Co., New York, 1942, no. 55. According to the C. T. Loo stock card for this sculpture, Loo acquired it from “Wales.” This is likely H. G. Quaritch Wales, a British historian and archaeologist. C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. C. T. Loo & Co. was incorporated as C. T. Loo, Inc. in 1949.
C. T. Loo and Co., An Exhibition of The Sculpture of Greater India, exh. cat. (New York: C. T. Loo and Co., 1942), 39, 67, (repro.).
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), 194, (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), 241, (repro.).
Sherman E. Lee, Ancient Cambodian Sculpture, exh. cat. (New York: The Asia Society, Inc., 1969), 97, 113, (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), 284, (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), 58-60, (repro.).
