Statue of a Divinity:
The Maurice Joy Rapa
Rapa Nui People, present-day Easter Island
Ca. 16th – 17th century
Height: 78.7 cm
Provenance
– Maurice Joy, London
– Lance and Roberta Entwistle, London
– Private Collection, acquired from the
above in 1992
Published & Exhibited
– Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island,
December 11, 2001 – September 8, 2002;
Eric Kjellgren, New Haven, 2001, p. 73,
fig. 44
– Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Visual
Encounters: Africa, Oceania and Modern
Art – Bildwelten: Afrika, Ozeanien und die
Moderne, January 25 – June 28, 2009;
Oliver Wick and Antje Denner (eds.),
Basel, 2009, folio IX, no. 17
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