Reclining Female Figure Artist, attributed to: Israel Museum Sculptor (Greek, Cycladic, 3rd millenium B.C.)

ca. 2600 B.C.

Ancient Art

On view, 1st floor, Ancient Art
Medium

Marble

Dimensions

9 × 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (22.86 × 6.985 × 3.81 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Joann and Gifford Phillips, Class of 1942

Accession Number

2008.115.26

Culture

Greek, Cycladic

Period

Bronze Age

Classification

Sculpture

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Provenance
Athens art market; Joann and Gifford Phillips, acquired from the above, 1962; Yale University Art Gallery, acquired from the above, 2008.
This work appears on our "Antiquities and Archaeological Material with Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Bibliography
  • Pat Getz-Gentle, "A Cycladic Figure Attributed to the Israel Museum Sculptor," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2011), 80–85, fig. 1
  • "Acquisitions 2009," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 142, ill
  • Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 155
  • Jurgen Thimme, ed., Art and Culture of the Cyclades in the Third Millenium B.C. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 252, fig. 128
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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