A Greek Marble Head of a Youth, Magna Graecia, circa 470-460 B.C.

with oval face, his long wavy hair bound in a broad fillet and falling in loose ringlets framing the forehead and down onto the nape of the neck.

acquired by the previous owner from Dr. Ephraim, Ticino, Switzerland, circa 1972/1973

"Notable Works on the Art Market" (advertisement Supplement), The Burlington Magazine, June 1973, pls. I-II

as shown, surface somewhat weathered except on neck and cheeks, note damaged nose and abrasions to chin and mouth, various chips
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In a letter written circa 1976 Prof. Hans Jucker, of the University of Bern, notes close similarities between the present head and another, "certainly from Magna Graecia, perhaps from Taranto," which was found in Rome in the Forum Romanum: E. Paribeni, Atti Soc. Magna Graecia, NS, vol. 1, 1954, p. 69f., figs. 32-34, and A. De Franciscis, Römische Mitteilungen, vol. 63, 1960, p. 25, pl. 8,1.

Also see R. Ross Holloway, Influences and Styles in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Greek Sculpture of Sicily and Magna Graecia, Louvain, 1975.