August Gaul. Two Running Piglets

Lot 1180
21.11.2025 15:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 1180 | August Gaul. Two Running Piglets
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€ 3 000 – 5 000
GAUL, AUGUST
1869 Großauheim - 1921 Berlin


Title: Two Running Piglets.
Date: 1913.
Technique: Bronze, light brown patinated.
Measurement: 8 x 18 x 7.5cm.
Notation: Inscribed and dedicated on the plinth and the edge of the plinth: "A. Gaul / E.H. Weihnacht 1913".


Cf. literature:
J. Gabler: August Gaul. Das Werkverzeichnis seiner Skulpturen, Berlin 2007, p. 181, no. 186.
Listed and depicted here is a version with three pigs from the same year. Gabler refers to a stone relief on the Klöpperhaus in Hamburg, for which Gaul designed the motif of running pigs from 1911-13 and which he now references in his bronze casts.

Provenance:
Private ownership, Germany;
Acquired from the estate of the family of Berlin-based sculptor Fritz Schaper.
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