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Lot 359 Dα

August Gaul - Zwei kleine Löwen

Auction 1134 - overview Cologne
31.05.2019, 17:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 6.820 € (incl. premium)

August Gaul

Zwei kleine Löwen
Circa 1898

Bronze Height 7 cm. Mounted on marble base (1.9 x 11.5 x 10 cm) Signed 'A. GAUL' on the back right of the cast-with plinth, foundry mark "H. NOACK BERLIN" on the back edge of the plinth. According to Gabler, 38 resp. 39 purchases and sales documented at Cassirer between 1904 and 1915. An edition of 20 estate casts decided in 1921, of which 14 sales were documented at Cassirer. Some casts more recent. Probably posthumous cast. - Mid-brown patina.

Catalogue Raisonné

Gabler 44-1

Provenance

Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover; Private collection, Baden-Württemberg

Literature

I.a. Hans Rosenhagen, Bildwerke von August Gaul, Berlin 1905, p. 37 with illus.; 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. 20

Exhibitions

I.a. Bremen 1904 (Deutsche Kunstausstellung); Darmstadt 1908 (Hessische Landesausstellung für Freie und Angewandte Kunst); Potsdam 1921 (Orangerie des Parks von Sanssouci, Ferdinand Möller), Potsdamer Kunstsommer