Portrait of a Man
CultureEgyptian
Date1836-1759 B.C.E.
MediumBlack granite or basalt
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 13 1/2 × 11 inches (30.48 × 34.29 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number39-8
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryAlberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kanas City, Missouri, March 18 2023 - June 18 2023, hors cat.
Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.
With Paul Mallon, Paris, by August 1938-1939 [1];
Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1939.
NOTES:
[1] Nelson-Atkins Director Paul Gardner first saw this object during a visit to Paul Mallon in Paris, late July or early August 1938, as recorded in the Nelson-Atkins Archives, Trustees Minutes, August 29, 1938.
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