Description
A Gandhara head of a statesman. On quality stand, excellent provenance. The art of the Gandhara region was born with the arrival of the Greeks at the end of the fourth millennium BC and continued under strong classical influence for the next three hundred years and beyond. Alexander’s conquest of the East had the corollary effect of opening the lands of the Indian Sub-continent to Europe and European culture ever since. The appearance of a portrait of a Buddhist acolyte that can easily be confused with a Greco-Roman bust of a statesman should not be surprising. Greek Art once introduced to that part of the world became a permanent influence. Greek names of sculptors appear in Indian Art over and over again for the next one thousand years. A real and exciting find, it was acquired from the Norman Hearst Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990. Remnants of polychrome, material is indurated gesso.
Size: On stand 14 ¾ in. high, 10 in. high without stand.
