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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 4, 2019 | Sotheby's | London | Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art | 39 | $****** - ****** | A ROMAN MARBLE HEAD OF A GREEK POET |
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33 cm (12.99 in)
Nils Ebbessøn Astrup (1901-1972), Oslo, acquired in Rome in the 1950s on the advice of Prof. Hans Peter L'Orange (1903-1983), founder and then Director of the Norwegian Institute in Rome
private collection, United Kingdom, by descent (Sotheby’s, New York, June 8th, 2011, no. 42, illus.)
Recorded
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Rome, neg. nos. 54.995-998 (http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/item/objekt/23905)
Published
Oscar Thue, "Utstillinger i Oslo varen 1959," Kunst og Kultur, vol. 42, 1959, p. 257, illus.
Axel Seeberg, "Two Pseudo-Seneca Replicas in Oslo," Symbolae Osloenses, vol. 35, 1959, pp. 98ff., figs. 3-5
Axel Seeberg, "Disjecta membra," Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, vol. 1, 1962, p. 17f., pl. 3b-c
Gisela M. A. Richter, The Portraits of the Greeks, vol. 1, London, 1965, p. 61, no. 38, figs. 207-9
Siri Sande, "Antikke portretter i norsk privateie," Kunst og Kultur, vol. 56, 1973, p. 42f., illus.
Siri Sande, "Greek and Roman Portraits in Norwegian Collections," Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, vol. 10, 1991, p. 16f., no. 8, pl. 8
or Euripides, turned to his left and gazing up with an energized and intensely concentrated expression, with unkempt beard and unruly hair radiating from the crown and falling in long locks over the forehead, temples, and nape of the neck; no restorations.
