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Gustav Seitz

Neckarau near Mannheim 1906 – 1969 Hamburg

”Junge ruhende Sappho”. 1964/65

Bronze with brown-green patina. 163 × 48 × 72 cm (64 ⅛ × 18 ⅞ × 28 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Gustav Seitz. ”Junge ruhende Sappho”. 1964/65.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 33,700

 

- 44,900

Sold for:

38,100 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Modern Art, Friday, 06.06.2025

Information

Bronze with brown-green patina. 163 × 48 × 72 cm (64 ⅛ × 18 ⅞ × 28 ⅜ in.). At the back right signed: Seitz. There too the foundry mark: SCHMÄKE DÜSSELDORF. Catalogue raisonné: Grohn 168. One of 8 casts. Cast 1992.

We would like to thank Wolfgang van Gulijk, Gustav Seitz Stiftung, Trebnitz, for kindly providing additional information..

Galerie Ohse, Bremen / Private Collection, Northern Germany (acquired 1993 from the above-mentioned) / Private Collection, Berlin (acquired 2000 at Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin/Kampen/Zurich)

Sommergäste III. Kampen (Sylt), Galerie Pels-Leusden, 2000, cat. no. 61, ill. p. 55

Gerhard Schüler: Wertstruktur and Leiblichkeit: Eine kunstsoziologische Studie für das Werk des Bildhauers Gustav Seitz. Frankfurt a.M., R. G. Fischer Verlag, 1992, p. 139

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