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Wilhelm Lehmbruck

Duisburg 1881 – 1919 Berlin

„Büste der Knienden“. 1912/14

Grey stone cast. Height: 50,5 cm (19 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Wilhelm Lehmbruck. „Büste der Knienden“. 1912/14.

Estimate:

EUR 150,000

 

- 200,000

USD 171,000

 

- 228,000

Sold for:

187,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

Selected Works, Thursday, 02.06.2016

Information

Grey stone cast. Height: 50,5 cm (19 ⅞ in.). Signed on the reverse lower right: W LEHMBRUCK. On the underside a label of Kunstsalon Hermann Abel, Cologne. Catalogue raisonné: Schubert 61 (this copy not mentioned; see Schubert 61 b. 2-5). One of 5 known posthumous stone casts of the 1920s/30s. Her right breast with a loss.

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Dietrich Schubert, Heidelberg, for kindly providing additional information.

Regarding the collection of Adalbert and Thilda Colsman see also: <a href="http://www.grisebach.com/en/colsman">www.grisebach.com/en/colsman</a>.

Collection Adalbert and Thilda Colsman, Langenberg (acquired in 1937 from Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne, thence by descent to the present owner; in 2003/04 on loan to Stiftung Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg)

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