A Yogini
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Exhibition History
An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India, C. T. Loo and Company, New York, 1942, no. 36 as Sapta-Matrika.
Excavated by Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuil (1885-1945), Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry), India, by 1927;
Purchased from Jouveau-Dubreuil by C. T. Loo & Co., New York, by 1931-1944 [1];
Purchased from C. T. Loo & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
NOTES:
[1] C. T. Loo/Frank Caro archive, Musée Guimet, Paris, copy of stock card in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. An image of the Yogini was published in Rene Grousset’s 1931 publication The Civilizations of the East and lists it with seven other examples (figures 88-89) as the “Property of Monsieur C. T. Loo.”
Rene Grousset, The Civilizations of the East, vol. 2, trans. by Catherine Alison Phillips (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1931), 28, 155, fig. 88, (repro.).
C. T. Loo, An Exhibition of the Sculpture of Greater India: a Fully Illustrated Catalogue, exh. cat. (New York: C. T. Loo & Co., 1942), 34-35, 59, (repro.).
Douglas Barrett, “The Temple of Virattanesvara,” in The Heritage of Indian Art, no. 2 (Bombay: Bhulabhai Memorial Institute, 1958), 6, pl. 21, (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), 228, (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), 124, (repro.).
Vidya Dehejia, Yogini Cult and Temples: A Tantric Tradition (New Delhi: National Museum, 1986), 180-82, (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), 384, (repro.).
Richard L. Anderson, Calliope’s Sisters: A Comparative Study of Philosophies of Art, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004), 199, fig. 8-3, (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), 264, fig. 22, (repro.).
Padma Kaimal, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies), 4, 8-9, 11, 14-15, 17-19, 21, 24, 26, 30, 44, 55, 88-89, 91-94, 97-98, 135-36, 143, 145, 148-149, 165-68, 184-88, 209, fig. 3, fig. 21, fig. 32, figs. 32a-c, fig. 87, fig. 89, fig. 134, (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), 63-63, (repro.).
