Summa Galleries

Summa Galleries, Inc. traded from Beverly Hills as a dealer and auctioneer in ancient art. Its first catalogue, Catalogue 1: Ancient Art, appeared in December 1976 and listed vases, sculptures, terracottas and bronzes⁵. Later numbers are cited in the scholarly literature: Catalogue 4, devoted to ancient vases, in November 1978, Catalogue 5 in September 1979, and Catalogue 6 in 1984⁶. A British Museum volume on Italian Iron Age artefacts cites Catalogue 4 for an object³. On 18 September 1981 the firm held Auction I, "Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Art", at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel^1,4.

In 1978 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts bought 34 terracotta reliefs from the gallery⁸. A Cypriot piece later in the Anastos Collection is recorded in a Christie's provenance as coming from "Summa Galleries; Anastos Collection"².