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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Mathura
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Uttar Pradesh
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India
- Period
- Kushan period mid 1st century - early 5th century
- Date
- 1st century-2nd century
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- sandstone
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 42.0 x 16.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Alex Biancardi 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 114.1998
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About
The youthful male torso is characteristic of the important Mathura school that flourished in northern India under the rule of the Kushan dynasty. Carved from the mottled red sandstone found around Mathura, it demonstrates the skill of the Indian sculptor in eliciting from hard stone the soft contours of a youthful body beneath transparent robes. The absence of this fragment’s head and right hand (which would have been held in a specific gesture, or 'mudra') prevents its precise identification.
The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.27.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Walking with gods, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jun 2019–05 Jan 2020
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Asian Collection: South Asia', pg. 288-297, Sydney, 1999, 289 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Buddhist Art', Sydney, 2003, 27 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, Look, 'Alex Biancardi November 18, 1923 - November 28, 1998', pg. 13, Melbourne, May 1999, 13 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, Look, 'Evolution and enlightenment', pg. 30- 32., Sydney, Jul 2015, 30 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Alex Biancardi, Jan 1985-Jun 1998, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998.