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Head of a man with a joyful expression
Stucco with beige pat…
See original version (French)
149
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Head of a man with a joyful expression
Stucco with beige pat…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €250
Voluntary lot
Description
Head of a man
with a joyful expression
Stucco with beige patina, marks of time. A few chips.
Gandhara Greco-Buddhist art, AD 100 to 400
H: 6.8 cm; W: 5 cm
Provenance: acquired in a public sale from Maître Boisgirard, Paris, late 1970s
The joyful expression of this head is rare in the Gandhara corpus, where meditative serenity dominates. It bears witness to the freedom of expression afforded by stucco, and harks back to the Hellenistic tradition of portraiture, in which capturing states of mind was a fundamental objective of sculpture.
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