Lot 115
"Head of a Youth", museum replica after an antique model, attributed to Silvano Bertolin (b. 1938 Casarsa della Delizia), contemporary
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Description
Cast stone, with a dark and bronze-toned surface finish. Mounted on a grey limestone base, applied to the reverse with a metal plaque, impressed in capitals: "STAATL. ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN UND GLYPTOTHEK MÜNCHEN / COPYRIGHT S. BERTOLIN". Head of a youth, the wavy hair rendered in finely incised strands beneath an encircling fillet knotted at the back. The finish two-toned, a dark coating over a bronze-toned ground standing lighter on the raised passages — hair strands, bridge of the nose, lips. Dimensions: head approx. 26 cm high, base 3 × 12 × 12 cm. Bertolin headed the restoration workshop of the Glyptothek in Munich from 1963 and restored the Aegina pediment sculptures.Condition: II Questions about the lot?
