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Gerhard Marcks

Berlin 1889 – 1981 Burgbrohl/Eifel

„Kleine Barbara“. 1934

Bronze with brown patina. Height: 85 cm (33 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gerhard Marcks. „Kleine Barbara“. 1934.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 20,300

 

- 27,000

Sold for:

14,280 EUR (incl. premium)

auctions 164-167

19th, 20th and 21st Century Art, Saturday, 06.06.2009

Information

Bronze with brown patina. Height: 85 cm (33 ½ in.). The signet of the artist on the plinth behind the right foot. On the reverse at the short side of the plinth on the right with the stamp: GUSS. RICH. BARTH MARIENDORF. There also numbered: 1. On the left numbered again: III. On the underside remains of a label of Spedition Gustav Knauer, Berlin. Catalogue raisonné: Rudloff 293 (knows of only one unnumbered copy). Cast circa 1955/58. One of the copies numbered in Roman numerals (meant for the export to the USA).

Formerly in the collections of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Dretzin, New York / Museum of Modern Art, New York (received 1959 as gift from the previous owner) /

German Art. Philadelphia, National Carl Schurz Association, 1973 / Twentieth Century Art, The Charles Rand Penney Collection. Rochester, New York, The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1983, cat. no. 52 (travelling exhibition in U.S.A. until 1988) / Venus und Gärtnerin, Werke von Gerhard Marcks 1930 – 1942. Pforzheim, Reuchlinhaus, 2001, illustration

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