
2.
Frank Auerbach
Behind Camden Town Station, summer evening

Obelisk of Nebsen, Egyptian Art
Medium: Limestone
Rogers Fund, 1958
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Assyrian “winged genie” with elaborate bracelets. Alabaster relief sculpture from Room H of the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (Kalhu), Iraq. Artist unknown; reign of Ashurnasirpal II (ca. 883-859 BCE). Now in the Brooklyn Museum.

Embroidered Mantle Fragment, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Medium: Camelid hair, cotton
Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
