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Juvenile head Stucco with beige patina, age marks.
See original version (French)
144
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Juvenile head Stucco with beige patina, age marks.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Juvenile head
Stucco with beige patina, age marks.
A few chips and small missing pieces.
Greco-Buddhist art from Gandhara.
100 BC - 100 AD
H: 11.5 cm; W: 7.5 cm
Provenance: acquired in a public sale from Maître Boisgirard, Paris, late 1970s
This juvenile head with its side locks and restrained bun testifies to the mastery of Gandhara stucco sculptors in rendering elaborate hairstyles. The fine features and gentle, inward expression are part of the Hellenistic tradition of the idealised portrait, adapted here to the aesthetic canons specific to this art form where East meets West.
See original version (French)
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