Exceptional anthropomorphic idol

Exceptional anthropomorphic idol

featuring a standing figure on powerful legs, his forearms personified by two balanced incisions forming a triangle. His schematized face is accentuated by the shadow cast by the frontal protuberance. The interplay of light and shadow lends this work a beautiful, timeless and mysterious expressiveness. Carved and polished hard stone, marks of time, leg broken-glued in three places and torso broken-glued. Mezcala Type M10, Guerrero region, Mexico, 400 -100 B.C. 51.5 x 13.5 x 6.5 cm Bibliography: Carlo Gay, Francis Pratt, Mezcala, Éditions Balsas, Geneva 1992, p. 54, fig.37 for a similar but smaller work. In the tradition of the monumental Cycladic idols produced on Easter Island, and of works from the earliest antiquity with, like this one, schematized features of great modernism, its presence personifies the great universal questions posed by mankind throughout time. This Mezcala is distinguished by its size, which places it among the largest of its kind in the world.