A Late Hellenistic Marble Head of a Veiled Woman

Circa 1st Century B.C.

Height 11 inches (28 cm).

Property from Mr. Radu Moldovan, Skokie, Illinois

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

Jonathan Piser, Chicago, Illinois and Mexico, acquired from the above in the 1970s.

Direct Auction Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, Sale 436, 14 July 2022, Part of Lot 2.

This veiled woman comes from a life-sized statute and is preserved from the neck up. The subject, an idealized woman, is shown with smooth, classicizing features such as Venus rings, almond shaped eyes, and center-parted wavy locks. The lack of preserved attributes makes identification difficult. Her overall appearance does recall statues of Demeter or Persephone and it is equally plausible that it represents either goddess.

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Mr. Coley joined the Antiquities department in 2021 after working as Managing Director in the Ancient Art department at Colnaghi, the world’s oldest commercial art gallery, where he helped to establish the Ancient Art department and launched Colnaghi New York in 2017. Prior to Colnaghi, Mr. Coley was in the Greek and Roman Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Coley holds a B.A. from the University of Miami and an M.A. in Art Market from the Fashion Institute of Technology, and he earned an art-appraisal certificate from New York University.

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