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n° 216
Titre : Hellenistic Marble Figure Of Aphrodite
Notes : Provenance: Collection of Mark Oliver (1899-1987), Edgerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland, thence by descent. This sculpture was inherited by the present owner in 1989 following the death of Mark Oliver in 1987. The work is listed on an inheritance inventory dated 27 July 1989 by an Edinburgh firm of solicitors acting on behalf of the family. It was listed on this inventory as Greek Sculpture: Aphrodite, with a probate value of £3,500. The current owner recalls showing it to school friends in the family home in the 1960s. Mark Oliver was co-owner with Richard Edward Arnesby ('Ted') Wilson, of the Savile Gallery, 29 Bruton Street, New Bond Street, London, during the 1920s, which specialised in Old Master paintings and drawings (exhibitions included Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Savile Gallery, May 1928, Drawings by Old Masters, Savile Gallery, 1930). The gallery also showed work by Walter Sickert (1860-1942), who apparently gave Mark Oliver some tutoring in painting. A finely modelled marble figure of Aphrodite, the goddess depicted standing with her weight on the right leg, undraped, with left arm formerly raised and head turned slightly to the right. Derived from the 2nd Century B.C. Aphrodite of Melos, or Venus de Milo (itself a hellenistic variant of the late 4th or 3rd Century B.C. Aphrodite of Capua), and the Aphrodite Diadoumene (in which the goddess has her hair tied back). For comparison, a Hellenistic Marble Torso of Aphrodite, circa 2nd Century B.C., of the type called Aphrodite Anadyomene, height 13 inches (33 cm), was sold at Sotheby's New York, Egyptian, Classical and Western Asiatic Antiquities, 3 June 2015, lot 40.Condition report : This fine Hellenistic marble is in relatively good condition, apart from the main named defects, which are: - loss to the lower part of the nose - small concave area of loss above the right knee - small oval portion at the base of the left leg repaired, with clear sign of the join where the old repair was made - similar, larger repaired oval portion to the left-hand side of the back of figure, below the shoulder blade and above the waist, with clear sign of the outline of the old repair The head has also been relatively well repaired around the neck area, presumably from when it was previously broken. The join is relatively neat, and the head is clearly original to the rest of the body. There are some other surface marks and light discolouration consistent with ageDominic Winter Auctions, Salle de vente
, South Cerney, UK
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Titre de la vente : Fine Art, Old Master Drawings & Prints, Antiques & Textiles
Date de la vente : 05/03/2020
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