Live Auction 1113The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF THE WRESTLERS, ON PEDESTAL
Lot 190

A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF THE WRESTLERS, ON PEDESTAL

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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GBP 49,875

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A LIFESIZE ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF THE WRESTLERS, ON PEDESTAL
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Unsigned, on a vert de maurin marble pedestal
The group: 36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 49 in. (124.5 cm.) wide; 29 in. (74 cm.) deep
The pedestal: 32¾ in. (83 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

'The Wrestlers', also known as 'The Pancrastinae', is inspired by a Roman marble sculpture at the Uffizi, Florence, which is after a lost Hellenistic bronze of the third century BC, either of the Pergamene school or the circle of Lysippus.