August Gaul - Ente - image-1
August Gaul - Ente - image-2
August Gaul - Ente - image-1August Gaul - Ente - image-2

Lot 144 Dα

August Gaul - Ente

Auction 1201 - overview Cologne
02.06.2022, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 12.000 € - 15.000 €

August Gaul

Ente
1911

Bronze. Height 52.5 cm. Signed 'A.GAUL' verso on cast-with and stepped base. Probably a life-time cast before the estate's 1921 approval to limit the edition to 12 casts, not offered by Cassirer. - Dark, vivid patina with traces of black colour.

Catalogue Raisonné

Gabler 157 a

Certificate

We would like to thank Josephine Gabler, Berlin, for additional information and scientific advice.

Provenance

Private collection, Hamburg

Literature

Emil Waldmann, August Gaul, Berlin 1919, illus. n.p.; Herwig Guratzsch (ed.), Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig. Katalog der Bildwerke, Cologne 1999, p. 144 with illus. p. 281

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 2010 (Museum Giersch), August Gaul. Fritz Klimsch, cat. no. 59 with colour illus., p. 19 with illus.; illus. on both inside cover pages.