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LOT 142:
Gerhard Marcks
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Sold for: €26,000
Start price:
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20,000
Estimated price :
€25,000 - €35,000
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VAT: 19%
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Gerhard Marcks: Social Consciousness
MARCKS, GERHARD
1889 Berlin - 1981 Burgbrohl
Title: Social Consciousness.
Date: 1950 (draft).
Technique: Bronze, patinated dark brown.
Measurement: 78 x 36,5 x 19cm.
Notation: Artist's signet on the left rear corner of the plinth. Numbered on the rear edge of the plinth: II.
Foundry Mark: Beside it foundry mark RICH BARTH BLN MARIENDORF.
Number: II.
This work is from an edition of three casts numbered in Roman numerals and three casts numbered in Arabic numerals.
Provenance:
- Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin
- Private collection North Germany
- 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. 549, ill.
- Cf. exhib. cat. Sculpture, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen 1971, cat. no. 88, ill.
- Cf. exhib. cat. Gerhard Marcks, Zum fünfundachtzigsten Geburtstag, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1974, p. 29, cat. no. 71, ill.
Explanations to the Catalogue
Gerhard Marcks
Germany
Bauhaus
Modern Art
Sculptures
1950s
Figure / Figures
Object
Bronze
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