A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE BENT SCULPTOR, EARLY SPEDOS VARIETY, CIRCA 2600 B.C.

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A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
ATTRIBUTED TO THE BENT SCULPTOR, EARLY SPEDOS VARIETY, CIRCA 2600 B.C.
The reclining figure with lyre-shaped face and pointed chin, long slender tapering neck, and sloping shoulders with sharp shoulder points, the arms crossed right below left beneath the breasts, with deep leg-cleft perforation
6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high

Provenance

The Piet and Ida Sanders collection, the Netherlands, acquired 1962; thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The Bent Sculptor's work is modest in scale and often displays characteristic pointed chins, a leg-cleft running from the knee to ankle, sharp shoulder points and profile contours of the legs.

Cf. P. Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture, Madison, 2001, p. 70 and pl. 58-59.

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