A LARGE CYCLADIC MARBLE RECLINING FEMALE FIGURE

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A LARGE CYCLADIC MARBLE RECLINING FEMALE FIGURE
SPEDOS VARIETY, EARLY BRONZE AGE II, CIRCA 2500 B.C.
With lyre-shaped head, a long nose in relief, a shallow chin, the broad neck with incised grooves at the join to the torso, sloping shoulders, the breasts small, the arms folded right-below-left, with the right extending to the left elbow, fingers and wrists indicated by incised lines, the waist narrow, with a horizontal groove across the abdomen, the pubic area defined by an incised "V", a deep cleft separating the legs, the knees slightly indented, the feet pointing downward with deeply incised toes, the spine indicated by a verticle groove, and with a horizontal buttock line--21 in. (52.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Mathias Komor, "From an English private collection. The previous owner obtained it shortly after the end of World War II while stationed on one of the Cycladic Isles."

Lot Essay

In personal correspondence between Dr. Getz-Preziosi and Mrs. Rodgers shortly before her death, the present figure was identified as the work of an accomplished sculptor with an individual style, by the same hand as a figure in the Goulandris collection and another from a private collection. It was suggested that this anonymous sculptor be called the Rodgers Master, as this example was pivotal in linking the three sculptures to the same hand.

For the Goulandris figure, see no. 173 in Doumas, Cycladic Art, Ancient Sculpture and Pottery from the N. P. Goulandris Collection, London, 1983

For the figure from a private collection, see no. 52 in Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections (exhibition catalogue), Richmond, 1987