Bronze sculpture. Height 27.7 cm. With the artist's mark on the right sole of foot as well as with the scratched in exemplar number "7/8" and the hammered foundry mark "GUSS BARTH BERLlN". - With dark, partly golden-brown shimmering patina. - With a minute gold-coloured scratch on the left hand.
Gerhard Marcks, work-diary plaster/bronze nr. 431; Rudloff 640
Provenance
Private possession, Rhineland (the previous owner was a friend of the artist)
Literature
Helga Weißgärber, Arbeiten von Gerhard Marcks in Köln, in: Bildende Kunst, 1957, nr. 11, p. 785; Adolf Rieth, Gerhard Marcks, Recklinghausen 1959, p. 23; Adolf Rieth, Gerhard Marcks, in: Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, vol. 58, 1960, p. 284, ill. p. 285; Peter Feist, Die Kraft der Stille, in: Bildende Kunst, 1969, nr. 2, p. 77, ill. 5; Alfred Werner, The Form of Nature, in: American Artist, 1971, ill. p. 35; Gerhard-Marcks-Stiftung (ed.), Gerhard Marcks - Reise nach Südafrika, Bremen 1996, without page, ill. VIII
Exhibitions
Wanderausstellung V 1956-1958, Gerhard Marcks. Afrikana, without cat.; Cologne 1957 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 41 with ill.; Pforzheim 1958 (Kunst- und Gewerbeverein), Gerhard Marcks, without cat.; New York 1958 (Gerson Gallery), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 20 with ill.; Düsseldorf 1959 (Galerie Vömel), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 20; Hanover 1960 (Kunstverein), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 39; Heidelberg 1961 (Kunstverein) Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 17; Cologne 1964 (Wallraf-Richartz-Museum), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 40 with ill.; Bremen 1964 (Kunsthalle), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 60 with ill.; New York 1967 (Leonhard Hutton Galleries), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 86; Paris 1971/1972 (Musée Rodin), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 31 with ill.; Bremen 1972 (Graphisches Kabinett Werner), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 14 with ill.; Munich 1974 (Galerie Gunzenhauser), Gerhard Marcks, cat. nr. 11 with ill.