Lot 65 D

August Gaul - Two Penguins

Auction 943 - overview Cologne
28.05.2009, 16:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 5.000 €
Result: 10.800 € (incl. premium)

Bronze sculpture. H 15.7 cm. On dark stone base 2.1 x 18.1 x 9.5 cm. Signed at left side on the plinth A.GAUL, on edge of plinth with the foundry mark “HNOACK BERLIN". One of few casts. - With dark black patina.

Provenance

Foundation Prof. Dr. Hans-Siegfried and Jutta Schuster, Cologne; formerly Lehmann Collection, Leipzig

Literature

Cf. Emil Waldmann, August Gaul, Berlin 1919, with ill.; Katalog der Skulpturen der Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1993, p. 215; cf. Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul, Leben und Werk, Leipzig 1961, nr. 187

Exhibitions

Bremen 1974 (Galerie Werner), Tierplastiken von August Gaul, Gerhard Marcks, without no., with ill.