Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico
NGV International
Ground Level
24 Aug – 23 Sep 79
This exhibition was ‘the first of its kind to be presented in a major museum in Australia’, according to the exhibition’s catalogue, and featured almost 200 objects from Pre-Columbian Mexico, some estimated to date back as far as 1150 BCE.
Most of the artefacts were small, due to the difficulty in handling large ancient objects at the time, and were loaned from controversial art dealer and antiquities collector Leonardo Patterson.
The NGV now has a collection of almost 400 Pre-Columbian artefacts.