Fort Worth Museum Acquires Two Important Antiquities

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, recently declared that they were the purchasers of two highly important antiquities auctioned in June in New York.

The museum acquired a intensely modeled Roman bronze head of a young athlete, said to date to the 1st Century BC. It is thought to have been based on a Greek 4th Century BC original by Lyssipos. The head sold for more than $4.5-million and was purchased by a dealer on behalf of the museum.

The same museum also was the winning bidder on a rare Attic kylix painted by Douris and potted by Python, circa 480 BC. The vase depicts vivid mythological scenes including the gruesome death of Pentheus, the king of Thebes. The vase was once in the Eli Borowski collection and sold for more than $1.7-million in June.

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