A MONUMENTAL GREEK HEAD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Lot 31
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ID 859547
Lot 31 | A MONUMENTAL GREEK HEAD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A MONUMENTAL GREEK HEAD OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT

HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

25 in. (63.5 cm.) high





Provenance

Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Paris and Geneva; thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

R. von den Hoff, "Neues im ‚Alexanderland‘: Ein frühhellenistisches Bildnis Alexanders des Großen", in Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 17, Freiburg, 2014, pp. 223-224, figs. 8-9.

A. Schmölder-Veit, and N. Schröder-Griebel, Lebendiger Gips: 150 Jahre Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München, Heidelberg, 2019, p. 124 (the plaster cast).

M. Kovacs, Vom Herrscher zum Heros - Die Bildnisse Alexanders des Großen und die Imitatio Alexandri, 2022, p. 48, pls. 78, 79, 80. nos. 3-4.



Exhibited

On loan to the Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, 1991.



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