Fritz Klimsch - Tänzerinnen - image-1

Lot 141 D

Fritz Klimsch - Tänzerinnen

Auction 1234 - overview Cologne
02.12.2023, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €

Fritz Klimsch

Tänzerinnen
1923

Bronze. Height 30 cm. Monogrammed 'P.K.' [sic!] on the plinth. Foundry Noack, Berlin; kindly confirmed that the original model still exists there. - With dark, anthracite patina.

Catalogue Raisonné

Braun 115 (this cast)
The initial "P", which was accidentally interchanged by the caster, was confirmed to the previous owner by Hermann Braun as authentic.

Provenance

Justizrat Ernst Cohnitz, Berlin (until 1971), thereafter Margrit Fischer-Cohnitz and heirs; Rhenish private collection; private ownership, North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature

Cf. Wilhelm Bode, Fritz Klimsch, Berlin 1924, no. 70; Hermann Braun, Fritz Klimsch. Eine Dokumentation, Cologne 1991, p. 351 f.