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A photograph taken inside the Beverly Hills home of American film producer Michael Phillips caught my eye, as it exposed a rare sandstone sculpture of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation and usually depicted with four faces and four arms. The snapshot of the statue, revealing only part of this priceless treasure of the Khmer Empire, was enough to immediately set my pulse racing. The sculpture is devoid of his four hands, has a large crack across his torso, suggesting it was once in two halves, though the sampot style and feet cannot be seen in the picture. It’s very similar in form – hosting a jatamukuta chignon above a large diadem on the three heads in view - to a Brahma sculpture on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, dated to the tenth century, which they acquired directly from the EFEO in Cambodia in 1936, who were allowed to sell sculptures to museums and collectors at that time (also pictured here). As to the provenance of the artifact in the collector’s home, that’s a mystery, unless you can fill in the blanks.

This rare artwork is from the personal collection of well-known film producer Michael Phillips, whose films include The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. His parents, Lawrence and Shirley Phillips, were noted New York dealers in Asian fine arts who sold to the Met, LACMA, and British Museum, amongst others. Phillips is a collector of Asian art himself, particularly Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan sculpture. This Brahma may’ve been in the possession of the family for quite a while if it was passed on by the parents. Some of Phillips’ collection was auctioned by Galerie Zacke in Austria in March 2023. I will highlight a few examples from an article in Arts of Asia magazine which focused on the variety within the Phillips' collection in 2013 in a separate post.

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