Photo: Thierry Ollivier for Galerie Kervorkian
The Kervorkian Gallery, Parisian specialist in antiquities and Islamic works of art, will be taking this Neolithic gypsum alabaster statuette of a woman to the Biennale. It will be priced in the region of €100,000-500,000.
The 5in (13cm) high figure comes from western Anatolia or the Cyclades and dates to the 5th-4th millennium BC. It was with the Brook Street Gallery in London in 1968, then a New York collection from 1968-79, passing by descent to 2016.