ERNST BARLACH (1870-1938)

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£ 20 000
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30.06.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 990471
Lot 435 | ERNST BARLACH (1870-1938)
ERNST BARLACH (1870-1938)

Der Sinnende II

inscribed with the foundry mark 'HNOACK BERLIN' (at the back of the base)

bronze with golden brown patina

height: 27 1/8 in. (69 cm.)

Conceived in 1934 and cast in bronze in an unnumbered edition of 20 after 1961





Provenance

The artist's estate.

Private collection, Europe; sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 2009, lot 202.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

F. Schult, Ernst Barlach: Das Plastische Werk, Hamburg, 1960, no. 445 (plaster cast illustrated p. 235).

E. Laur, Ernst Barlach: Das plastische Werk, Güstrow, 2006, no. 559, p. 252 (another cast illustrated).

A. Beloubek-Hammer, Ernst Barlach, Plastische, Meisterwerke, Leipzig, 1996, p. 138 (illustrated pp.138-139).

Exh. cat., Ernst Barlach, Mystiker der Moderne, Ernst Barlach Gesellschaft, Hamburg, 2003, p. 269 (another cast illustrated).



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