Arno Breker - Weiblicher Torso (Female Torso) - image-1

Lot 309 D

Arno Breker - Weiblicher Torso (Female Torso)

Auction 979 - overview Cologne
31.05.2011, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.235 € (incl. premium)
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Terracotta sculpture. Height 25.7 cm, mounted on wooden base 7.8 x 13.7 x 14.3 cm. - Cast with apparent casting seams. - With old retouches on neck and leg stump with different-coloured clay; the support causes slight tilt of torso. - Rare.

Certificate

The authenticity was confirmed after presentation of the sculpture by Dr. Carola Breker, Breker archive; we would like to thank her for kind information.

Literature

Volker G. Probst, Der Bildhauer Arno Breker, Bonn und Paris 1978, p. 23/24 with ill. plate 21; Dominique Egret, Arno Breker, Ein Leben für das Schöne, Tübingen 1996, with full-page ill. 27; Iris Kalden-Rosenfeld, Künstler und Chamäleon, Herleitung und Formanalyse der Bildwerke von Arno Breker, in: Exhib. cat. Schwerin 2006, op.cit.

Exhibitions

Schwerin 2006 (Schleswig-Holstein-Haus), Zur Diskussion gestellt: Der Bildhauer Arno Breker, p. 65 with ill. 48