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Figure of a Man
Figure of a Man

Figure of a Man

Artist Unknown
Datecirca 2494–2345 BCE
MediumWood with traces of gesso and paint
DimensionsH. 52 1/4 in. (132.7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes
Object numberG.79.6.3
On View
On view
ProvenancePrivate collection, Switzerland, prior to 1979 (per dealer); Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, NY; sold to NCMA, 1979.
Published ReferencesGazette des Beaux-Arts (Supplement) (March 1980), 26, illus.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983, illus. (b-w) 35.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 3.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Figure of a Man, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 11, 14, illus. (color) 14.

Richard R. Brettell, with Natalie H. Lee, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation (exhibition catalogue) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), 57, illus. (b-w).

Caroline M. Rocheleau, entry for Figure of a Man, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 24, illus. (color) 25.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 6, illus. (color) 13.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 8, 1979-February 3, 1980.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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