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KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)

Lot 689
13.05.2023 19:30UTC -05:00
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Lot 689 | KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
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KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)

Die Klage or Zum Gedenken Ernst Barlachs or Selbstbildnis

signed 'KOLLWITZ’ (on the left side); stamped with foundry mark ‘H. NOACK BERLIN FRIEDENAU’ (on the right side)

bronze with brown patina

Height: 10 3/4 in. (27.4 cm.)

Width: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.)

Conceived in 1938-1941; this bronze version cast between 1945 and 1959





Provenance

Jacob Schulman, Gloversville, New York (by 1965).

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1992, lot 14.

The Galerie St. Etienne, New York (acquired at the above sale).

Acquired from the above by the present owner, December 1993.



Literature

A. Heilborn, Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin, 1949, p. 92 (plaster version illustrated, p. 89).

M.C. and H.A. Klein, Käthe Kollwitz: Life in Art, New York, 1972, p. 140 (plaster version illustrated).

H. Guratzsch, Käthe Kollwitz: Druckgraphik, Handzeichnungen, Plastik, Bonn, 1990, p. 73, no. 59 (another cast illustrated, p. 62).

A. Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz: Die Plastik, Werkverzeichnis, Onlinekatalog, Cologne, 2019, p. 191, no. 38.I.B.14 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 182).



Exhibited

Utica, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Jewish Art: Yesterday and Today from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schulman, 1965.



Special notice


This lot is offered without reserve.



Post lot text

Dr. Annette Seeler, author of the catalogue raisonné of sculpture for Käthe Kollwitz, confirms that she has verified the present edition of the model The Lamentation on the basis of photographs and other documents in comparison with her own materials and considers it, also according to current knowledge, to be an authorized cast.
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