About the Artwork
Bodhisattva
between 200 and 400
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Gandharan
Unknown
Gray schist
Overall: 20 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 7 3/4 inches (52.1 × 41.9 × 19.7 cm) Overall (weight, including granite mount): 145 pounds (65.8 kg) Including base: 25 1/2 × 21 1/8 × 9 inches (64.8 × 53.7 × 22.9 cm)
Sculpture
Asian Art
Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Hill Memorial Fund, Cleo and Lester Gruber Fund, William H. Murphy Fund, and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Bloom Fund
2006.109
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
pre-1976, private collection (France). 1976, sold by (Beurdeley et CIE, Paris, France). 1976-1977, private collection (south of France). May 8, 1977, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). 1997-2006, private collection (England). (Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., London, England)
2006-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Beurdley, J. M., Images Divines, exhibition catalogue, Beurdley et CIE, Paris, 1976, no.1.
Sotheby's, The Indian Sale, London, May 8, 1997, p. 18, lot 12.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Gandharan, Bodhisattva, between 200 and 400, gray schist. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Ernest and Rosemarie Kanzler Foundation Fund, Hill Memorial Fund, et al., 2006.109.
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