Nude youth with a horn
Not on view
Yvonne Hackenbroch, in the Untermyer catalogue, quotes a letter of May 15, 1923, from Wilhelm von Bode to an unknown recipient, recommending the statuette as “a very good bronze of the late Quattrocento, unknown to me, rendering a motif of Antiquity in a fine, free manner.” In fairness, it should be noted that Hackenbroch’s marked copy is annotated with a question mark and the word “no.” Indeed, the license taken with this “kouros” is pitifully un-antique, to the point that it would be deceitful to offer it at auction. The surface is pitted and may also have been intentionally battered.
-JDD
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