A ROMAN MARBLE DANCING SATYR
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A ROMAN MARBLE DANCING SATYR

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

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A ROMAN MARBLE DANCING SATYR
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
The nude figure standing with weight on his left leg, his right leg held out behind, his muscular torso twisted to the left with his right arm flung out in front and his left arm held behind, a strap draped diagonally around his lower body and thighs and looped through a fold of drapery at the back of his legs
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 July 1983, lot 260.
New York art market.
This figure appears in Claudio Bravo’s painting Interior con Escultura, 1995.

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PUBLISHED:
P. Bowels and M. Vargas Llosa, Claudio Bravo Pinturas y Dibujos, Madrid, 1996, p. 235.

This lively figure most likely represents the so-called Dancing Satyr, a Roman copy of a popular Hellenistic Greek prototype. "The dance is the favourite pastime, too, of the satyr who had already, in the works of the school of Lysippos, become an exponent of the lust for life of this period" (M. Bieber, The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age, New York, 1967, p. 139). With head thrown back in ecstasy or turned to look at their tails, the variations held their arms aloft, or held pipes, clappers, a wine cup or swung a thrysus. For a related example cf. C. C. Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1981, p. 166, no. 133.