Kniendes Menschenpaar

Details

Georg Kolbe (1877-1947)
Kniendes Menschenpaar
signed with initials 'GK' (on the sole of the male figure's left foot), stamped with foundry mark 'Guss H. Noack/Berlin Friedenau' (underneath)
bronze with green patina
20 x 10 x 8in. (50.8 x 25.4 x 20.4cm.)
Conceived and cast in 1931 in an edition of 2

Literature

U. Berger, Georg Kolbe, Berlin, 1990, no.135 (illustrated in colour, p.329)

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Lot Essay

The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Dr Ursel Berger of the Georg Kolbe Museum. The other cast is held in the collection of the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin.

It appears that this cast was sold to the Manchester collector, T.D. Barlow, at a exhibition in Flechteim in 1931. His intention was to donate this work to the Tate Gallery but, for reasons which remain unclear, this did not take place.

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