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Lot 243 D

Gerhard Marcks - Paar zu Pferde

Auction 1234 - overview Cologne
02.12.2023, 11:00 - Day Sale - Modern Art
Estimate: 7.000 € - 9.000 €

Gerhard Marcks

Paar zu Pferde
1959

Bronze. Height 50.1 cm. Artist's signum to centre of plinth, number and foundry mark "GUSS BARTH RINTELN" verso to edge of plinth. Cast 6/6. - Golden-brown patina. - In very good condition. Isolated minor traces of oxidation.

The bronze is based on a preparatory drawing that Marcks made on his first trip to Greece in 1928, although there the couple are riding on a donkey. In 1961, he realised the motif of the couple on horseback again in a smaller version (cf. Rudloff 761).

Catalogue Raisonné

Rudloff 724; Gerhard Marcks works diary plaster/bronze 511

Provenance

Private ownership, Hesse