He liked to say that Egyptian, Byzantine, African and Cycladic sculptures, not despite but because of their distortions, were closer to reality than Velázquez.

The red blanket in the arms of the "Small Pox Demon" obscures the beautiful carving of the figure, whose flattened torso recalls Cycladic sculpture.

During all this time, he was amassing major collections of the works of Redon as well as works in an entirely different area: Greek Cycladic sculpture.

Poems like his "Black Tambourine" have the monolithic authority of Cycladic sculpture.

Cycladic sculptures, a Giacometti drawing and paintings by Reno.

It has neither the abstract "modernist" allure of Cycladic sculpture nor the consolingly idealistic beauty attributed to sculpture from classical Greece.

"Cycladic sculptures do something to me, and I am not sure why."

An iron dagger with an ivory handle carved as the head of a man is as stunning in its abstract simplicity as a Cycladic sculpture.

It could have been cued by Cycladic sculpture, one of the many cultures, including African, from which Archipenko drew.

The British High Court turned down a request by the Greek Government today to halt a sale of Cycladic sculptures scheduled at Sotheby's on Monday.