Dancing Mother Goddess Brahmani

Arts of Asia

10th century

India
Madhya Pradesh

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Title: Dancing Mother Goddess Brahmani
Place: Madhya Pradesh (Object made in)
Date: 901 CE–1000
Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions: 61 × 34.3 × 14.3 cm (24 × 13 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection. Gift of Marilynn Alsdorf
Reference Number: 2021.237
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Pratapaditya Pal with contributions by Stephen Little, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Thames and Hudson, 1997), 182 (ill.), 325, cat. 233.

Memphis, TN, The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Realm of the Gods: Masterpieces of Indian Sculpture from The Art Institute of Chicago and The Alsdorf Collection, Apr. 30–July 23, 2000, no cat.

With Spink & Son, London, by Aug. 5, 1981 [this and the following according to invoice from Spink & Son, Aug. 5, 1981; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to James W. Alsdorf (1913–1990) and Marilynn B. Alsdorf (1925–2019), Winnetka and Chicago, IL, Aug. 5, 1981; by descent to Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago, 1990 [on long-term loan at the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 8, 1983; signed a promised gift agreement for the work, 2002]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

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