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Nasli Heeramaneck (1902-March 29, 1971) was an Parsi-American art dealer, specializing in Asian and
Pre-Columbian art
Pre-Columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, Central, and South Americas from at least 13,000 BCE to the European conquests starting in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Pre-Columbian era c ...
. Born in
Bombay
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, he moved to New York in the 1920s, and lived and worked there until his death. Works collected by him and his wife, Alice, are now held by the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Pa ...
, the
National Museum of New Delhi, and Yale University.
References
1902 births
1971 deaths
American art dealers
Parsi people from Mumbai
Indian emigrants to the United States
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