Lot 6
  • 6

A Large Cycladic Marble Figure of a Goddess, Attributed to the Rodgers Sculptor, Early Bronze Age II, circa 2500-2400 B.C.

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • A Large Cycladic Marble Figure of a Goddess, Attributed to the Rodgers Sculptor
  • Marble
  • Height 16 1/4 in. 41.3 cm.
Lying with her arms folded beneath her breasts, with stout neck, lyre-shaped head, aquiline nose, and high straight forehead, the paint ghost of the left eye visible.

Provenance

Mathias Komor, New York [E.810], November 28th, 1975

Exhibited

"Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, November 10th, 1987 - January 10th, 1988, Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Texas, March 5th - May 15th, 1988, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, June 25th - September 25th, 1988

Literature

Pat Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, Virginia, 1987, pp. 200-210, no. 52
Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture, Madison, Wisconsin, 2001, pp. 80 and 159 (The Rodgers Sculptor [1]), pl. 68a

Condition

Very good and as shown, feet missing, note chip to proper right side of head in back, light scratch in area of proper right shoulder blade, and minor nicks on front of proper left calf.
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Catalogue Note

For two other figures also attributed to the Rodgers Sculptor by Pat Getz-Gentle see Christie's, New York, December 15th, 1992, no. 6 (P. Getz-Gentle, op. cit, 2001, pl. 68b; Harmon & Stern, Cycladic Masterpieces, Harmon Fine Arts, Inc., New York, 2004, p. 41, no. 166), and Nicholas P. Goulandris Museum-Foundation of Cycladic Art 282 (C. Renfrew, The Cycladic Spirit: Masterpieces from the Nicholas P. Goulandris Collection, New York, 1991, pl. 57, and P. Getz-Gentle, op. cit., pl. 68c).