Bronze. Height 9.5 cm. Width 12.5 cm. Signed with stamp mark 'MATARÉ' on underside. One of 5 estate casts in bronze. - Light bronze-coloured patina, crevices partially oxidised. Minor knick to the front right hoof.
150b Schilling
Literatur
Exhib. cat. Ewald Mataré. Skulpturen, Holzschnitte, Aquarelle, Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf 1975, p. 10 with illus.; exhib. cat. Ewald Mataré, Plastik, Graphik, Lempertz Contempora, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne 1977, no. II with cover illus.; Toni Feldenkirchen, Zeichen von der Erde und den Himmeln, in: Weltkunst, 1977, issue 5, p. 405 with illus.; exhib. cat. Vor 30 Jahren, Deutsche Malerei und Plastik der Gegenwart, 1949, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 1978, p. 11 unnumbered.; exhib. cat. Ewald Mataré, Der "Tote Krieger", Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve/Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf 1985/1986, no.13 with colour illus. 69.
The "Stehende Kuh - Zinkkuh" (Cow Standing Up - Zinc Cow) was preceded by a single zinc cast in 1938 (cf. Schilling 150a). This, in turn, can be attributed to a standing terracotta cow which Mataré had smoothed down with agate and then painted ornamentally with engobes (cf. Schilling 150). The zinc exemplar, which had been lost during the war, was found again in Berlin in 1968 and was used for five posthumous bronze casts in 1975. The elementary reduction of forms and the geometricised, scratched decor are reminiscent of archaic depictions of animals.
Provenance
formerly private collection, Rhineland, estate