Head and neck of a marble figurine
Head and neck of a marble figurine
The fragmentary preservation of the work and its comparison to counterparts by celebrated modern creators (Modigliani, Brancusi) help us to appreciate that the art of the Cycladic sculptor, some 4,500 years ago, attained that austerity of form which is considered the apogeic achievement of twentieth-century art.
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