Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

Master Paintings & Sculpture from Four Millennia Part II

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Property from a New York Private Collection

A Lucanian Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Pisticci Painter, circa 440-430 B.C.

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Bid

11,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Private Collection

A Lucanian Red-Figured Bell Krater, attributed to the Pisticci Painter, circa 440-430 B.C.


painted on one side with a Nike standing between two athletes and awarding a fillet to one holding a strigil, and on the other side with three draped youths, two holding staffs.


Height: 13 ½ in.; 34.4 cm

Private collection (Sotheby's, London, October 27th, 1980, no. 276)

Sotheby's London, May 18th, 1981, no. 402, illus.

MPB Collection, Stockholm, inv. no. 75

Private collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sotheby's, New York, June 5th, 2013, no. 33, illus

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

A.D. Trendall, Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Sup. 3, 1983, p. 7, no. 43A

Art of the Ancient World, Royal-Athena Galleries, vol. XV, 2004, no. 109, illus.

Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, One Thousand Years of Ancient Greek Vases II, 2010, no. 158, illus.

The Pisticci Painter is among the earliest and most important practitioners of Lucanian red-figure vase painting. His work reflects the formative phase of the Lucanian school, closely indebted to Attic red-figure traditions, particularly those of the late Classical period. His figures are characterized by careful, often restrained draughtsmanship, expressive but solid anatomy, and a preference for balanced, legible compositions.

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