A Greek Marble Head of a Woman, probably Attic , circa late 5th Century B.C.

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

A Greek Marble Head of a Woman, probably Attic
Height 9 1/2 in. 24.1 cm.

perhaps from a pediment group or grave stele, her youthful face with full parted lips and large eyes, her wavy hair parted in the center, swept back from the temples to a chignon behind, and bound in two fillets.

Provenance

acquired by Joseph Brummer from Aznavorian, rue Le Pelletier, Paris
Joseph Brummer, New York, 1924 (gift of Mrs. Seymour H. Knox, Sr.)

Literature

A.G. Dunbar, "New Acquisitions for the Albright Art Gallery," Buffalo Artist's Register, 1926, p. 55, illus.
Buffalo Arts Journal, March 1926, p. 13
Academy Notes. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, September 1931, p. 31, illus.
Margarete Bieber, "Greek Sculpture in The Cleveland Museum of Art," Art in America, vol. XXXI, July 1943, p. 120
Andrew C. Ritchie, Albright Art Gallery. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculptures in the Permanent Collection, 1949, p. 213, no. 238
Steven A. Nash, ed., Albright-Knox Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, New York, 1979, pp. 56-57, illus.
Cornelius C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, Malibu, Calif., 1981, p. 54, no. 27, illus.