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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON
Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981)
Hemdauszieher
Details
Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981)
Hemdauszieher
signed with monogram (on the top of the base); stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'RICH. BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF VII' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and red patina
Height: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1944; this bronze version cast by 1957.
Hemdauszieher
signed with monogram (on the top of the base); stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'RICH. BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF VII' (on the back of the base)
bronze with brown and red patina
Height: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1944; this bronze version cast by 1957.
Provenance
Fine Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson), New York (1957).
Etta E. Steinberg, St. Louis; Estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 13 May 1977, lot 719.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Etta E. Steinberg, St. Louis; Estate sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 13 May 1977, lot 719.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
G. Busch, Gerhard Marcks, Das plastische Werk, Frankfurt, 1977, p. 325, no. 445 (another cast illustrated).
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