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    18 December 1998

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    • A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP OF DIONYS
    Lot 141

    A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP OF DIONYSUS AND A SATYR

    CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

    Price realised

    USD 63,000

    Estimate

    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000

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    A ROMAN MARBLE GROUP OF DIONYSUS AND A SATYR
    circa 2nd century a.d.
    Dionysus standing with his legs crossed, the left in front of the right, his left arm over the shoulder of his companion who bends forward from the weight of the deity he supports, the satyr with his arm around the god's waist, Dionysus nude but for a mantle draped over his shoulders, a slender vertical fold curving around his legs, tendrils of hair falling on to each shoulder, his right arm originally raised, perhaps holding grapes on a kantharos, the satyr wearing a goat skin tied around his neck, the knot at his chest, the goat's wooly pelt spread out on his back, its flattened horned head resting on his buttocks
    23 in. (59 cm.) high

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    Lot Essay

    For a recent treatment of the subject, a popular one in Hellenistic and Roman art, see Pochmarski, Dionysische Gruppen, Eine typologische Untersuchung zur Geschichte des Sttzmotivs.

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