Graham Geddes The Grand Tour
Revered connoisseur, collector and dealer, Graham Geddes has been trading in antiquities, antique furniture, fine and decorative art for over fifty years, gathering a loyal and high-profile clientele along the way. Passionate in his pursuit of beauty and knowledge, Graham is esteemed as one of the world-leading experts in the trade, maintaining his unparalleled reputation via a thorough research programme for the select pieces that he deals in. It is with great pleasure that Gibson’s announces The Graham Geddes Sale, an auction of elegance and eclecticism. The impressive sale will be held over the course of three days, Saturday 14 – Monday 16 October and will include examples of Graham’s trademark tastes in furniture, decorative arts, Greek and Roman antiquities, Chinese and Asian art and garden statuary.
Revered connoisseur, collector and dealer, Graham Geddes has been trading in antiquities, antique furniture, fine and decorative art for over fifty years, gathering a loyal and high-profile clientele along the way.
Passionate in his pursuit of beauty and knowledge, Graham is esteemed as one of the world-leading experts in the trade, maintaining his unparalleled reputation via a thorough research programme for the select pieces that he deals in.
It is with great pleasure that Gibson’s announces The Graham Geddes Sale, an auction of elegance and eclecticism. The impressive sale will be held over the course of three days, Saturday 14 – Monday 16 October and will include examples of Graham’s trademark tastes in furniture, decorative arts, Greek and Roman antiquities, Chinese and Asian art and garden statuary.
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401<br />
A Roman marble torso,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Faun of Praxiteles,<br />
1st-2nd century A.D<br />
in a languid pose with<br />
drapery across the shoulder,<br />
supported on a metal plinth<br />
torso 90cm high, with plinth 200cm<br />
$100,000–110,000<br />
402<br />
A remnant marble statue of<br />
Bacchus holding a bunch of<br />
grapes, after the antique,<br />
late 19th/early 20th century<br />
raised on a marble stand<br />
the statue 36cm high,<br />
20cm at widest point<br />
with stand 52.5cm high<br />
$8,500–10,000<br />
403<br />
A Roman bronze figure of<br />
Hercules, 1st-2nd century A.D<br />
the nude figure carrying a<br />
lionskin over his left arm,<br />
mounted on a marble base<br />
12.7cm high<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
Sotheby’s London, Catalogue of<br />
Antiquities, 13th and 14th July 1981,<br />
Lot 204<br />
$2,500–2,800
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