Art Précolombien: La Collection Barbier-Mueller

By Jacques Blazy

The Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art, recently auctioned at Sotheby's, is the most comprehensive collection of its kind. Comprising some 300 works from Mexico, Central, and South America - wood and stone sculptures, ceramics, textiles, and ritual objects - it spans 1200 BC to AD 1500. The Barbier-Mueller Collection, one of the most important and wide-ranging art collections in the world, was begun by Josef Mueller in Paris in 1908 with the purchase of works by Hodler and C zanne; the Swiss Mueller then looked beyond Western art and bought his first pre-Columbian piece, an Aztec stone water goddess, in 1920. Today, Mueller's daughter and son-in-law, Monique and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, continue to collect Western, African, Oceanic, and Cycladic art, which is frequently on loan to museums around the world. Text in English and French.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8874396465
• ISBN13: 9788874396467
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Five Continents Editions
• Length: 644 Pages
• Weight: 11.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 3.9" x 10.6" x 13.2"