Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

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Property from a West Coast Private Collection

A Marble Head of Silenus, Early Hellenistic Period, circa 3rd Century B.C.

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February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Bid

4,200 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a West Coast Private Collection

A Marble Head of Silenus, Early Hellenistic, circa 3rd Century B.C.


bent forward and turned slightly to his right, with full beard and moustache and deep-set eyes half closed under a smooth prominent brow, his hair bound in a diadem.


Height: 5 ½ in.; 14 cm

Albert E. Gallatin (1881-1952), New York, acquired at auction in New York in November 1919 from Silo's Fifth Avenue Art Galleries

by descent to the present owner

The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ancient Art in American Private Collections, December 28th, 1954 - 15 February 15th, 1955

Margarete Bieber, in: Paul Arndt and Walter Amelung, eds., Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Skulpturen, Munich, 1938, no. 4494, left (arachne.dainst.org/entity/6291486)

Ancient Art in American Private Collections. A Loan exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1954, p. 28, no. 165, pl. 47

Arachne, ID no. 1083248 (arachne.dainst.org/entity/1083248)

Margarete Bieber (op. cit.) mentions several parallels, including the head of a statue in the Hermitage Museum (O. Waldhauer, Die antiken Skulpturen der Eremitage, vol. 1, 1928, no. 20, p. 38ff., pl. 15; https://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=5811).

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