Georg Kolbe - Pietà - image-1

Lot 211 Dα

Georg Kolbe - Pietà

Auction 932 - overview Cologne
06.12.2008, 00:00 - Modern Art
Estimate: 16.000 € - 18.000 €
Result: 19.200 € (incl. premium)

Georg Kolbe

Pietà
1928/1929

bronze sculpture height 38,3 cm Gießerstempel, monogrammiert probably posthumous cast

A second, somewhat enlarged rendition, with lightly modified pose, of the "Pietá" from 1928. It was the basis for the life-size statue, sculpted 1929/1930. Cf. Berger 120 (first design) und 122 (life-size figure)

Catalogue Raisonné

Berger 121

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia

Literature

Ludwig Justi, Georg Kolbe, Berlin 1931, p. 7

Exhibitions

Berlin 1930 (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim), Georg Kolbe; Berlin/Bremen 1997/1998 (Georg-Kolbe-Museum/Gerhard Marcks-Haus), Georg Kolbe 1877-1947, cat. nr. 62, p. 115 with ill.