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Lot 159*

A Roman marble male torso

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £23,750 inc. premium

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A Roman marble male torso
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
Standing with the weight on his right leg, his right arm raised, his left once by his side, the smooth musculature with defined pectorals, iliac crest and buttocks, 26cm high

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Provenance:
American private collection, Hollywood, Los Angeles.
James Pendleton (1904—1995) Collection, acquired in Europe in the late 1950s, thence by descent.
Pendleton was an interior decorator, collector and dealer based in Beverly Hills in the 1940s-60s. His spectacular house on North Beverly Drive was designed by the eminent architect John Elgin Woolf in the early 1940s. The house was featured in Vogue's November 1942 issue and would later be photographed by Slim Aarons.

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