Paris, 12 September 2012
Sotheby’s has announced the sale of the Barbier-Mueller collection of pre-Hispanic art. It will take place on 22 and 23 March 2013 in Paris. Approximately three hundred works from Mexico, Central America, and South America will be put up for auction.
To complete the event, an exhibition will be organised in Paris and a selection of works will be displayed in Hong Kong, New York, and London, under the direction of Jacques Blazy, international specialist of pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican, South American art, Native American art, and Eskimo art.
In the Barbier-Mueller collection several masterpieces have been displayed. Including, in particular, the statue Chupicuaro the Maya vase-shaped head, duck vase Tarasque, head of the ancient Maya ceramics from John Huston’s collection, the statue of the goddess of water, of Aztec era, or urn from Marajo island shown lately at the British Museum.
Sotheby’s wanted to take advantage of the Parcours des mondes, bringing together art lovers of the non-European world for a few days in Paris, to announce the news.