21st Nov, 2025 13:00
Fine Antiquities & Ancient Art
20
† A FINE PAINTED LINEN FRAGMENT, PTOLEMAIC PERIOD
Sold for €3,718
including Buyer's Premium
Egypt, 304-30 BC. Possibly from a shroud, painted in red with the face of a man wearing a broad collar, braided beard with curled tip, and striped tripartite wig surmounted by uraei and a sun disk, his broad face with almond-shaped eyes, long cosmetic lines and eyebrows, and smiling mouth.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Expected wear, small losses, tears, fraying, loose threads, some fading, and expected soiling and stains. The frame with signs of wear and use.
Provenance:
- With Charles Dikran Kelekian, New York.
- The private collection of Leo and Blanche Manso, New York, acquired from the above.
- A private collection, acquired from the above in May 2021.
- Sotheby’s London, 5 July 2024, lot 128, mid-estimate GBP 6,500 or approx. EUR 7,900 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing.
With two old inventory labels, the first ‘Dikran G. Kelekian announces the removal of his galleries of Antiquities and Art Objects to 20 East 57th Street, Fourth Floor, New York, N.Y.’, and the second inscribed ‘#5846 Ptolemaic Painted Linen, Mummy Portrait painted in red on undyed linen, II-I BC’.
Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1983), son of Turkish-born art dealer Dikran Kelekian (1867-1951), was a notable collector and dealer of Egyptian art, Islamic ceramics and Coptic textiles. He worked every day at his gallery at 667 Madison Avenue with his daughter, Nanette Rodney Kelekian. Over the years, the Kelekians sold major works to most of the leading museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kelekian felt most strongly about proper restoration of antiquities and frequently would repair the Coptic textiles in his stock.
Leo Manso (1914-1993), an abstract painter and collagist, was widely regarded as a leading influence on the art of collage. Known for his fluid composition and rich use of color, Manso’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and other museums. His wife, Blanche Manso, was a noted art dealer and collector of “Tantric” pictures, designs, maps, charts and diagrams and modern European and American art.
Dimensions: Image size 39.5 x 15.5 cm, Size incl. frame 60.8 x 34.3 cm
Set inside a frame, behind glass. (2)
Egypt, 304-30 BC. Possibly from a shroud, painted in red with the face of a man wearing a broad collar, braided beard with curled tip, and striped tripartite wig surmounted by uraei and a sun disk, his broad face with almond-shaped eyes, long cosmetic lines and eyebrows, and smiling mouth.
Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Expected wear, small losses, tears, fraying, loose threads, some fading, and expected soiling and stains. The frame with signs of wear and use.
Provenance:
- With Charles Dikran Kelekian, New York.
- The private collection of Leo and Blanche Manso, New York, acquired from the above.
- A private collection, acquired from the above in May 2021.
- Sotheby’s London, 5 July 2024, lot 128, mid-estimate GBP 6,500 or approx. EUR 7,900 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing.
With two old inventory labels, the first ‘Dikran G. Kelekian announces the removal of his galleries of Antiquities and Art Objects to 20 East 57th Street, Fourth Floor, New York, N.Y.’, and the second inscribed ‘#5846 Ptolemaic Painted Linen, Mummy Portrait painted in red on undyed linen, II-I BC’.
Charles Dikran Kelekian (1900-1983), son of Turkish-born art dealer Dikran Kelekian (1867-1951), was a notable collector and dealer of Egyptian art, Islamic ceramics and Coptic textiles. He worked every day at his gallery at 667 Madison Avenue with his daughter, Nanette Rodney Kelekian. Over the years, the Kelekians sold major works to most of the leading museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kelekian felt most strongly about proper restoration of antiquities and frequently would repair the Coptic textiles in his stock.
Leo Manso (1914-1993), an abstract painter and collagist, was widely regarded as a leading influence on the art of collage. Known for his fluid composition and rich use of color, Manso’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and other museums. His wife, Blanche Manso, was a noted art dealer and collector of “Tantric” pictures, designs, maps, charts and diagrams and modern European and American art.
Dimensions: Image size 39.5 x 15.5 cm, Size incl. frame 60.8 x 34.3 cm
Set inside a frame, behind glass. (2)
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