GARDE

GARDE

*Venus or Mother Earth Goddess shown standing nude in callipyge form. Her face bears a superb, determined expression, her gaze alternating between light and darkness. Her head is covered by a crown drawn by regular incisions with two raptor claws plunging onto the forehead. Coffee-red, yellow ochre and beige terracotta, slightly broken-glued in two places, marks of time. Tlatilco, Mexico, Pre-Classical period 1150-700 B.C. 50.3 x 21.7 x 8.5 cm Provenance: Former Yvon Collet collection, 1964. Acquired from Galerie Mermoz Paris, 2014 Bibliography: The Jaguar's Children, Pre-Classic Central Mexico, The Museum of Primitive Art New, museum editions, 1965, p. 98, fig. 178, for a work close to the former Stanley Selengut collection, NY