BOULDER, CO Artemis Gallery LIVE will get the jump on the Ides of March with a March 14, 2014 auction of fine antiquities, Pre-Columbian, Far Eastern, Native-American and ethnographic art.
BOULDER, CO Artemis Gallery LIVE will get the jump on the Ides of March with a March 14, 2014 auction of fine antiquities, Pre-Columbian, Far Eastern, Native-American and ethnographic art.
“This auction is truly special,” said Teresa Dodge, owner of Artemis Gallery LIVE. “Our usual offering of authentic ancient art is complemented by unique and exciting African, Native-American and Spanish Colonial pieces – it’s like taking a trip around the world, without leaving the comfort of your home, since it is an online event.” LiveAuctioneers will provide the Internet live-bidding services for the auction.
The sale begins its voyage with the splendor of the ancient Classical world. The timeless beauty of Egyptian art is on full display with brilliant blue ushabtis, bronze and faience amulets, and an important Egyptian Diorite Conical Offering Bowl (Lot 1A), impressively sized and stunning in form. The elegance of Ancient Greece is embodied by a rare and spectacular Greek Attic lekythos that depicts Ariadne leading two satyrs to a Bacchic ritual (Lot 20). Northern Greece was the source of an exceptional Hallstadt Bronze Situla (Lot 19).
The mighty Roman Empire is well represented. A grouping of elegant marble statues includes a stately Roman marble head of Jupiter (Lot 48A) with curly beard and expressive eyes and mouth, a pudgy Roman marble statue of Eros (Lot 48B) with dimpled knees and prominent belly, and a tall and elegant statue of the Satyr Silenus, an all-around party animal, clad in a voluminously draped garment (Lot 48C).
Leaving the classical world, the auction moves to Northern Europe, with jewelry and weaponry that illustrate both the artistry and power of the mighty Vikings (Lots 73-77). From there, the auction moves to the Far East, where magnificent funerary sculptures include a nine-piece set of processional statues (Lot 78E), finely crafted with humor and pathos. Also from China is a Han Dynasty royal court lady (Lot 78A), whose dress reveals her to be an ancient fashion plate.
Exploration of the New World begins with a beautifully carved Olmec stone figurine (Lot 80) and moves through the various representative cultures of Pre-Columbian art. Finally, the auction turns to Africa, with such important pieces as the Lobi wood female figure (131B) and the Bamana wood granary door, (Lot 142), both deaccessioned from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta.
Artemis Gallery’s Antiquities, Pre-Columbian & Ethnographic Art Auction will start at 11 a.m. EST on Friday, March 14, 2014. Bids may be placed through a variety of methods: absentee (including absentee online), by phone (by prior arrangement) or live on auction day on LiveAuctioneers. The auction catalog is now online and ready for viewing.
For additional information about the auction, call Teresa Dodge at 720-502-5289
720-502-5289720-502-5289720-502-5289 or email [email protected]. www.artemisgallerylive.com