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拍品專文
The most common canon for marble female figures of the Spedos type involved dividing the body into four roughly equal parts: head, torso, thighs and calves with feet. This allowed the sculptor to achieve a more delicate and balanced composition, a marked advancement from the Archaic three-part canon. This figure, however, seems to part from the accepted four-part canon as the head, together with the neck, occupies a third of the figure's length, similarly to the torso and the thighs followed by unusually short calves. This is a distinctive trait of the Sutton Place Sculptor, to which three other larger figures have been attributed so far, all sharing unconventional proportions and a very distinctive style.
The Sutton Place Sculptor is named after the location of the collection of the late Stanley J. Seeger, which included a large female figure by his hand (47 cm. high), notably one of the very few examples still preserving traces of a cross-hatched pattern in red paint on the chest, cf. C. A. Picón, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain. A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Ashmole Archive, London, 1986, p. 16, no. 1, pl. I and P. Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Private Collections, Virginia, 1987, p. 207 (not ill.). This name piece sold at Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 10 December 2008, lot 27, then attributed to the Master of Naxos 4673. An even larger work from the same hand (50 cm. high) is now in the collection of the Naxos Museum, inv. no. 4673; the third piece (35.5 cm. high), now in the Goulandris Museum, coll. no. 252, also shows a disproportionately large head and remarkably well-preserved facial features, cf. C. G. Doumas, Early Cycladic Culture. The N. P. Goulandris Collection, Athens, 2000, p. 145, no. 210.
As the present example is by far the smaller in scale of the Sutton Place Sculptor's production, it has been suggested that it might be the earliest work of the artist, who then moved on to larger works and perfected his craft, still maintaining his personal style.
The Sutton Place Sculptor is named after the location of the collection of the late Stanley J. Seeger, which included a large female figure by his hand (47 cm. high), notably one of the very few examples still preserving traces of a cross-hatched pattern in red paint on the chest, cf. C. A. Picón, Classical Antiquities from Private Collections in Great Britain. A Loan Exhibition in Aid of the Ashmole Archive, London, 1986, p. 16, no. 1, pl. I and P. Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Private Collections, Virginia, 1987, p. 207 (not ill.). This name piece sold at Sotheby's, New York, Property from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 10 December 2008, lot 27, then attributed to the Master of Naxos 4673. An even larger work from the same hand (50 cm. high) is now in the collection of the Naxos Museum, inv. no. 4673; the third piece (35.5 cm. high), now in the Goulandris Museum, coll. no. 252, also shows a disproportionately large head and remarkably well-preserved facial features, cf. C. G. Doumas, Early Cycladic Culture. The N. P. Goulandris Collection, Athens, 2000, p. 145, no. 210.
As the present example is by far the smaller in scale of the Sutton Place Sculptor's production, it has been suggested that it might be the earliest work of the artist, who then moved on to larger works and perfected his craft, still maintaining his personal style.