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Lot 240 D

Gerhard Marcks - Venus, sich die Haare aufbindend

Auction 1234 - overview Cologne
02.12.2023, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 35.000 €
Result: 75.600 € (incl. premium)
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Gerhard Marcks

Venus, sich die Haare aufbindend
1960

Bronze. Height 143 cm. Artist's signum front right of square plinth and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH RINTELN" verso on edge of plinth and with cast number. Cast 4/6. - Grey-green, partly vivid patina due to outdoor exposure.

The model here was Merwe Scherneck, after whom Gerhard Marcks also modelled other sculptures (cf. Rudloff 742, 743 and 774).

Apparently Marcks liked the figure so much that he labelled it "Venus" - the ideal female figure. This copy was made especially for the previous owner. The intended edition of 6 copies was apparently not cast.

Catalogue Raisonné

Rudloff 748; Gerhard Marcks works diary plaster/bronze 528

Provenance

Private collection, Hesse

Exhibitions

Cf. et.al. Cologne 1964 (Stadthalle Köln-Mülheim), Acht Kölner Bildhauer, cat. no. 60; New York 1967 (Leonard Hutton Galleries), Gerhard Marcks, cat- no. 26, with ill.; Berlin 1969 (Galerie Nierendorf), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 65, with ill.; Paris 1971/1972 (Musée Rodin), Gerhard Marcks, cat. no. 45