Marcel also had a particular affinity for African tribal art, and while dating such items is problematic, he absolutely had impeccable taste. Marcel was an unquestioned expert in antiquities and all items in the collection from the ancient world are guaranteed to be authentic. ![]() He collected, restored, bought and sold high quality items for the better part of three decades, before falling ill and being unable to work in 1992. ![]() Marcel began purchasing antiquities, tribal art, Asian art and European art beginning in the early to mid 1960s and many of the pieces in the collection were purchased at this time. Marcel was undoubtedly a genius and was, as far as I know, the only Restorer for the Met without a PhD. “Marcel Gibrat (Pictured working on a Greek Kylyx in the 1970s), my grandfather, was a Restorer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan and later owned a Madison Avenue Restoration Studio and Art Gallery one block from the Guggenheim Museum. "Red Figure Vases of South Italy & Sicily", New York, NY, U.S.A.: Thames & Hudson, 1989. Provenance: Marcel Gibrat Collection, USA., New York GalleryĬf. Euboeans founded the first colonies, Pithecussae. The site of extensive trade and commerce, Magna Graecia was the seat of the Pythagorean and Eleatic systems of philosophy. Substantial paint loss, chip on the edge of the knob, flakes on the lid. Magna Graecia, (Latin: Great Greece, ) Greek Megale Hellas, group of ancient Greek cities along the coast of southern Italy the people of this region were known to the Greeks as Italiotai and to the Romans as Graeci. ![]() Large palmettes under handles, grape vine on the lid. A Terracotta Head of a Banqueter Western Greek, Tarentine circa 5th-4th century B.C. Reverse side bears draped figure holding a tambourine but is virtually gone. Obverse decorated with a winged figure of Eros having a drapery over his left arm. This absolutely RARE terracotta vessel has an ovoid body with two horizontal, loop handles and a knobbed lid. The skyphoid pyxis was a very popular vase type in the Greek Colony of Sicily.
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