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LOTTO 140:

Gerhard Marcks
Gerhard Marcks: Venus und Amor

Venduto per: €35 000
Prezzo iniziale:
28 000
Prezzo stimato :
€35 000 - €55 000
Commissione per la casa d'aste: 35%
IVA: 19% Solo su commissione
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Gerhard Marcks: Venus und Amor
MARCKS, GERHARD
1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl

Title: Venus und Amor.
Date: 1952 (draft).
Technique: Bronze, patinated brown.
Measurement: 82 x 35 x 44cm.
Notation: Artist's signet on the plinth verso right. Numbered on the rear plinth edge: III.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark GUSS BARTH BERLIN.
Number: III.

This work is from an edition of three known casts.

Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Busch, Günter/Rudloff, Martina: Gerhard Marcks - Das plastische Werk. With a catalogue raisonné by Martina Rudloff, Frankfurt a.MBerlin/Vienna 1979 (2nd ed.), cat. rais. no. 594, ill.
- Cf. exhib. cat. Sculpture, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 1971, cat. no. 95, ill.

- Touching and tender depiction of a mother and son
- The innocent, childlike figure of Cupid symbolises the unpredictability and playfulness of love
- The timeless sculpture combines aspects of antiquity with modern elements

Explanations to the Catalogue

Gerhard Marcks
Germany
Bauhaus
Modern Art
Sculptures
1950s
Figure / Figures
Object
Bronze
Mythology


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