CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.

Details

AN ETRUSCAN TERRACOTTA VOTIVE MALE HEAD
CIRCA 3RD CENTURY B.C.
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Richard (1907-1958) and Gladys (1903-2002) Bernheimer, Munich and Philadelphia, acquired and brought to the U.S. by 1933.
Property from the Bernheimer Family of Philadelphia; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 13 June 2000, lot 291.
Private Collection, Connecticut, acquired from the above.
Property from a Connecticut Private Collection; Antiquities, Christie’s, New York, 9 December 2008, lot 129.

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Lot Essay

Richard Bernheimer was the grandson of Lehman Bernheimer (1841-1919), founder of the firm Kunst- und Antiquitätenhaus L. Bernheimer in Munich, which specialized in carpets, tapestries, and objets d’art. In 1933, Richard fled Germany and secured a professorship in Medieval art history at The University of Pennsylvania. Bernheimer's most well-known work, Wild Men in the Middle Ages: A Study in Art, Sentiment, and Demonology, was published in 1952.

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