A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE

ATTRIBUTED TO THE NAXOS MUSEUM MASTER LATE SPEDOS VARIETY, CIRCA 2500-2400 B.C.

Details

A CYCLADIC MARBLE FEMALE FIGURE
attributed to the naxos museum master
late spedos variety, circa 2500-2400 b.c.
Sculpted with a long head, the simple nose well-centered, a slightly bulging neck, with angled shoulders and small breasts, the arms folded right below left, the pubic triangle incised, a deep cleft separating the legs in front, with a shallow groove in back, the knees and ankles banded, the feet angled down, the toes and fingers incised, traces of red pigment in back and pigment "ghosts" on the face
9 7/8in. (25cm.) high

Lot Essay

Some of the typical features of this sculptor's ouvre are: the sloping shoulders; the generalized breasts; the upper arms not clearly distinguished from the chest; the elbows set close to the body with the right hand extending as far as the left elbow, causing the left elbow to be lower in the back than in the front; and the absence of the midsection. For a more detailed discussion of the Naxos Museum Master, see pp. 95-98 in Getz-Preziosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades, Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium B.C., and p. 197 in the same author's Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections.