Gerhard Marcks
Büffelkuh
1953
Bronze Height 36.1 cm Artist's mark, cast number and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH RINTELN" on belly lower right. Cast 8/8. - Yellowish-brown, partially slightly reddish patina. - Minimal traces of oxidation.
Catalogue Raisonné
Gerhard Marcks works diary plaster/bronze no. 405; Rudloff 609
Provenance
Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf; Private collection, Rhineland (acquired there in 1991)
Exhibitions
i.a. London 1954 (The Arts Council), Gerhard Marcks, An Exhibition of Sculpture with Drawings and Woodcuts, cat. no. 36; Wanderausstellung IV South Africa 1955 (Deutscher Kunstrat), Gerhard Marcks, South Africa- Beeldhouwkunst van Diere, cat. no. 23 with illus.; Munich 1956 (Galerie Franke), Gerhard Marcks - Werk 1943-54, cat. no. 5; Wanderausstellung V i.a. Hamburg/Tübingen/Düren/Heilbronn/Friedrichshafen/Bremen 1956-1958 (Galerie Rudolf Hoffmann/Kunstverein Tübingen/Hoesch-Museum Düren/Kunstverein Heilbronn/Bodenseemuseum/Kunsthalle Bremen), Gerhard Marcks. Afrikana, n. cat.; Berlin 1963 (Akademie der Künste), Rückblick und Gegenwart, cat. no. 295; Cologne 1964 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Gerhard Marcks - Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, cat. no. 31; Paris 1971/72 (Musée Rodin), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 21 with illus.; Berlin 1974 (Galerie Nierendorf), Gerhard Marcks - zum 85. Geburtstag, cat. no. 9 with illus.