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LOT 0061
Greek Red-Figure Fragment with Athletes Attributed to the Euaion Painter
CIRCA 460 B.C.
6 in. (121 grams, 15.2 cm).
From a kylix, the inside painted with two young naked athletes within a medallion, conversing and cleaning their bodies with a strigil, the edge of the medallion decorated with a series of meanders and four crosses; the outside with two naked athletes and other figures, divided by foliage ornaments and volutes.
Provenance
Acquired in before 2005.
Private collection, Europe.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.11805-206818.
Literature
Cf. Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases. The Archaic period, London, 1975, figs.369-370.
Footnotes
The Euaion painter was a prolific artist of about 460 B.C. His painting - already in the manneristic period of the Attic red figures vases - was more nearly classical in style, although the ancestry of his small-headed, slim figures, is very evident. He introduced a high, sometimes patterned ground line for an upright two-figure group, and preferred the old elaborately patterned borders for tondos and the ground lines outside cups.
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LOT 0061
Greek Red-Figure Fragment with Athletes Attributed to the Euaion Painter
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
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