Gerhard Marcks - Sitzende Gewandfigur - image-1

Lot 440 D

Gerhard Marcks - Sitzende Gewandfigur

Auction 1099 - overview Cologne
01.12.2017, 18:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 4.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)

Gerhard Marcks

Sitzende Gewandfigur
1934

Bronze Height 14.3 cm Artist's signum verso lower left, numbered and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH BERLIN". Cast 8/12. - Golden yellow patina.

The depicted person is Trude Jalowetz, Gerhard Marcks' preferred model between 1931 and 1933. The Jewish art student was able to flee to the Netherlands in 1933.

Catalogue Raisonné

Rudloff 303; not mentioned in works diary

Provenance

Galerie Nierendorf Berlin (1971); in private possession since, Hesse

Literature

cf. Ernest Rathenau (ed.), Gerhard Marcks: Seraphita, New York 1967, illus. 65-67 (drawing)

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 1969 (Galerie Brumme), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 114 with illus.