Lot 474
474
A GREEK TERRACOTTA TORSO OF AN ATHLETE
THE PROPERTY OF A LOUISIANA COLLECTION
A GREEK TERRACOTTA TORSO OF AN ATHLETE

CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK TERRACOTTA TORSO OF AN ATHLETE
CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
The youthful nude figure depicted in contrapposto, his weight originally on his right leg, with the left leg back, the right arm raised and the left arm angled forward
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
Provenance
The Estate of Neil F. Phillips, Esq., Q.C.; Christie's, New York, 18 December 1997, lot 268.

Lot Essay

The pose of this torso suggests that this may be a variation of the so-called Munich "Oil-pourer," a 4th century B.C. work by a follower of Polykleitos depicting an athlete pouring oil from an alabastron held in his raised right hand into his lowered left hand. For the type see figs. 230 and 231 in Beck, Bol and Bückling, Polyklet, Der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik.

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