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Lot 99*

A Greek bronze Apollo

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek bronze Apollo
Hellenistic Period, circa 1st Century B.C.
The god depicted nude, standing with his weight on the right leg, the right arm raised in a gesture of offering, his luscious hair bound at the nape of the neck in a low chignon, with tendrils falling onto the shoulders, 11.7cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York (Art of the Ancient World, IV, 1985, p. 45, no. 145).
E. K. collection, Canton, Michigan, acquired from the above in 1987.

Exhibited:
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Madison County, 1987-2005.

The posture of this figure shows the influences of the Polykleitan style of the 5th-4th Century B.C.. For a similar Apollo see The Cleveland Museum of Art, inv. no. 1927.170.

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