AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX, attributed to the Colmar Painter, circa 480 B.C.

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AN ATTIC RED-FIGURE KYLIX, attributed to the Colmar Painter, circa 480 B.C.

The interior decorated with the scene of a youth moving to the right; he is naked apart from a himation thrown over his right shoulder and a wide fillet in his hair tied at the back and hanging down over his shoulder and left arm; he holds a knotted staff in his right hand and a skyphos in his left and he runs towards a column krater decorated with an ivy wreath. To the right of his head an inscription reads LYSIS, and between his legs KALOS in added red; the whole is encircled by a meander pattern

Condition: composed from fragments with part of chin and shoulder, lower left leg and part of krater restored

3¾in. (9.6cm.) high; 9 3/8in. (23.8cm.) diam. excluding handles

Lot Essay

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ars Antiqua, Luzern, Auktion III, 29 April 1961, 43, no. 102, pl. 43; Beazley, ARV², 357, no. 65 bis; vol II, 1647 and 1597 (kalos-name Lysis); The Lysis of Lysis Kalos is the grandfather of the Lysis of Plato's dialogue; cf., Davies, Athenian Propertied Families, 359-361. The tondo composition is similar to Brussels A889 (ARV², 329, no. 130; Boardman, ARFV, fig. 225) by Onesimos.

"His earliest works are very close to those of the Bonn Painter. His developed style was formed under the influence of Onesimos (in both stages of that artist's career) and the Antiphon Painter. He probably sat side by side with them in the workshop of Euphronios." Beazley, ARV², 352

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