Bronze sculpture. Height 16.5 cm. Mounted onto marble base 2 x 13 x 7 cm. Signed A. GAUL on back of cast-with plinth at left. - With dark brown patina. The patina on the donkey's right ear slightly flaked off. - Early cast from the estate edition cast after 1921.
Gabler 179
Provenance
Formerly private collection, Hessen (since the 1930's); private possession, Rhineland
Literature
Servaes 1917, with ill.; Emil Waldmann, August Gaul, Berlin 1919, with ill.; Angelo Walther, Der Bildhauer August Gaul. Leben und Werk, Leipzig 1961, nr. 168; Roland Dorn, Verzeichnis der bei Paul Cassirer nachweisbaren Arbeiten von August Gaul, in: Ursel Berger, Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, Berlin 1999, cat. nr. 55; see Michael Dorrmann, Eduard Arnhold. Eine biographische Studie zu Unternehmer- und Mäzenatentum im Deutschen Kaiserreich, Berlin 2002, p. 305
Exhibitions
Berlin 1914 (Galerie Cassirer), August Gaul, XVIth year , 6th exhibition, with ill. on the title; Berlin 1918, Freie Secession (?); Berlin 1919 (Galerie Cassirer), Sonderausstellung August Gaul; Bremen 1974 (Galerie Werner), Tierplastiken von August Gaul, Gerhard Marcks, with ill.; Berlin/Hamburg/Hanau 1999 (Georg Kolbe Museum/Ernst Barlach Haus/Museen d. Stadt Hanau), Der Tierbildhauer August Gaul, cat. nr. 54, with full-page color ill. p. 109.; Berlin 2006/2007 (Dr.-Thiede-Stiftung), Gaul-Esser-Haase-Heiliger