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拍品專文
The sculpture presented here shares some traits with the works of the Bent Sculptor and the Karo Sculptor. According to Getz-Gentle (Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture, pp. 70-71) "both craftsmen favoured a broad, robust image, and their work shows some very similar characteristics." All of the known examples by the Bent Sculptor and most by the Karo Sculptor are modest in scale, as with the present lot. Closest in style is the name-piece for the Bent Sculptor, now in the British Museum, acquired from J.T. Bent, who excavated it on Antiparos (pl. 58b in Getz-Gentle, op. cit.).
Ernst Beyeler (16 July 1921 – 25 February 2010) and his wife Hilda Kunz (1922 - 18 July 2008), known as Hildy, were considered the pre-eminent art dealers in post-WWII Europe. In 1982 they founded the Beyeler Foundation near Basel, housing their collection of 20th Century art including works by Monet, Picasso and Bacon, alongside tribal artefacts from Africa, Oceania and Alaska.
Ernst Beyeler (16 July 1921 – 25 February 2010) and his wife Hilda Kunz (1922 - 18 July 2008), known as Hildy, were considered the pre-eminent art dealers in post-WWII Europe. In 1982 they founded the Beyeler Foundation near Basel, housing their collection of 20th Century art including works by Monet, Picasso and Bacon, alongside tribal artefacts from Africa, Oceania and Alaska.