August Gaul - Orang-Utan - image-1

Lot 750 Dα

August Gaul - Orang-Utan

Auction 1013 - overview Cologne
25.05.2013, 11:30 - Modern Art May 25 2013
Estimate: 3.000 €
Result: 4.880 € (incl. premium)

Bronze sculpture. Hight ca. 10.7 cm. Mounted on black marble base (2.8 x 6.8 x 6.8 cm). Signed 'A. Gaul' on the back of the high cast-with plinth as well as with foundry mark "H.NOACK BERLIN". - Dark brown patina. - Posthumous recent cast.

Gabler 24

Provenance

Private collection, South Germany

Literature

i.a. Arthur Schulz, Deutsche Skulpturen der Neuzeit, Berlin 1900, plate 9; Hans Rosenhagen, Bildwerke von August Gaul, Berlin 1905, p. 17 with illus.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk, phil. thesis (typescript), Leipzig 1961, no. 143; Angelo Walther, August Gaul, Leipzig 1973, illus. no. 87; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Arbeiten von August Gaul, in: Ursel Berger (ed.), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, exhib. cat. Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin 1999, no. 30

Exhibitions

Berlin 2006/07 (Dr.-Thiede-Stiftung Berlin), Gaul - Esser - Haase - Heiliger