Offered by Seghers & Pang Fine Arts
Exceptional romanesque sculpture with a museum provenance prior to 1940 (cf. below).
Hieratic sculpture of a male head. Marble, eyes encrusted with lead. Probably from the tomb of a very important political and/or military person. Mediterranean region (southern Italy) ca. 1100-1150. Wear and chipping to the nose and the chin. Otherwise good condition (cracks but unbroken). On a wooden stand. Dimensions (without stand): 21x15x13cm.Our head bears some resemblance to a crowned marble head of a woman with lead encrusted eyes from southern Italy, dated circa 1270 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (47.100.53a).
Provenance:
Collection Musée Barbier-Mueller (Geneva, Switzerland), acquired by Josef Mueller before 1940.
Thence sold by Maison de Vente aux Enchères Boisgirard, Hotel Drouot, Paris on November 16th, 2007 (catalogue item n° 80, p.52) ‘Collections Barbier-Mueller’ (expert: A. Kevorkian).
Thence bought by Galerie Chenel (Paris).
Thence bought by a British private collector on February 10th, 2008.
Acquired by Seghers & Pang at a sale.
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