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A Greek marble head of a youth or athlete

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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Greek marble head of a youth or athlete
Circa 4th Century B.C.
The youthful life-sized head tilted slightly to his proper left, with the neck curved to the right, the face with heavy-rimmed almond-shaped eyes and dimples at the corners of the lips, the hair arranged in short thick curls, with smaller curls clustering around the nape of the neck and the ears, 29cm high

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Provenance:
Prof. Dr Ernst Berger (1928-2006) collection, former director of the Antikenmuseum Basel, acquired in the 1960s.
with Donati - Arte Classica, Lugano.
Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in November 2010.

The chiselled hair seen on this head is similar to that found on monumental statues of around 350 B.C. attributed to Skopas and also the early work of Lysippos. The intense expression of the face is similar to a life size marble head of a youth in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 11.91.1, which is suggested as resembling the style of the works of the 4th Century sculptor Skopas. For another similar head to the above lot dating to the 4th Century B.C., see M. Comstock & C. Vermeule, Sculpture in Stone, the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1976, p. 44, fig. 62. The Boston head has been compared to the head of the Lysippic Agelaos at Delphi, circa 335 B.C.

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