Le cinquième soleil - Arts du Mexique

The Musée du Président Jacques Chirac is currently presenting an amazing assemblage of ancient Mexican art. Le cinquième soleil - Arts du Mexique showcases more than 150 sculptures, masks, vases and musical instruments representing three thousand years of creation by the Aztec, Olmec, Teotihuacan, Veracruz cultures and others.

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Figure depicting the goddess Chalchiutlicue  -  Aztec, Mexico

Hacha  -  Veracruz, Mexico

Incensario depicting an anthropo-zoomorphic being  -  Teotihuacan, Mexico

Butterfly pyxis  -  Teotihuacan, Mexico

Figure  -  Teotihuacan, Mexico

Incensario figure  -  Teotihuacan, Mexico

Male figure  -  Aztec, Mexico

Information and images courtesy of the Musée du Président Jacques Chirac

 

Tribal Art Auction - Bonhams - May 12, 2012

Bonhams will present a sale of fine tribal art and artifacts on May 12 in New York. The nearly four hundred lots on offer will comprise a wide range of works from traditional societies in Africa, Polynesia, Mexico, and elsewhere, including an array of southern African works from the estate of Norman Hurst.

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Pendant, hei tiki  -  Maori, New Zealand

Fish hook  -  Gambier Islands

Vessel with figure  -  Jama Coaque, Ecuador

Rhythm pounder couple  -  Senufo, Côte d'Ivoire

Stone head  -  Aztec, Mexico

Bird figure  -  Valdivia, Ecuador

Information and images courtesy of Bonhams

Aztec to Zapotec: Pre-Columbian Art at the OMA

Currently on view at the Orlando Museum of Art, Aztec to Zapotec: Selections from the Ancient Americas Collection features more than 180 works made prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Representing a span of more than 3,000 years, the exhibition is drawn from the OMA’s comprehensive Art of the Ancient Americas Collection and gives a rare glimpse into the life and culture of numerous civilizations from the North, Central and South American regions. Significant ancient works of gold, silver, jade, ceramic, shell and wood are included from the cultures of the Aztec, Maya, Moche, Nasca, Inca and Zapotec.

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Male effigy jar  -  Recuay, Peru  -  100–300 CE

Nose pendant  -  Yotoco (Calima), Colombia  -  1–800 CE

Figural urn  -  Zapotec, Mexico  -  300–600 CE

Information and images courtesy of the Orlando Museum of Art