Gerhard Marcks
Böse alte Stute
1942
Bronze Height 26.2 cm, width 36.8 cm Artist's mark to the front right of the plinth, numbered 'VII' and with foundry stamp "RICH. BARTH BLN. MARIENDORF" to the right edge of the plinth. One of 12 casts. - With a fine dark, reddish brown patina.
Catalogue Raisonné
Gerhard Marcks work diary plaster/bronze no. 248; Rudloff 408
Literature
Günther Busch, Gerhard Marcks, Tierplastik, Wiesbaden 1954, illus. 4 & 5; Katalog Sammlung Bremen, Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung, cat. no. 38, illus. 47; Elga Kern, Briefwechsel, in: Wegweiser in der Zeitwende, Sonderdruck, undated, illus.
Exhibitions
i.a. Munich 1949 (Galerie Franke), Gerhard Marcks - zu Ehren des Sechzigjährigen, cat. no. 38; Berlin 1950 (Schloss Charlottenburg), Berliner Neue Gruppe 1950, cat. no. 161; Hamburg 1950 (Kunsthalle), 100 Jahre Kunst in Hamburg, not incl. in cat.; New York 1951 (Curt Valentin Gallery), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 7, illus.; Wanderausstellung IV 1955 Südafrika, Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 4; Hamburg 1955 (Galerie Hoffmann), Gerhard Marcks - Tierplastik und Graphik; New York 1961 (Gerson Gallery), Gerhard Marcks - Recent Sculpture, cat. no. 1; New York 1967 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), A Comprehensive Exhibition of Bronze Sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 36; Mannheim 1969 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks - zum 80. Geburtstag, cat. no. 29