OTTO GUTFREUND (1889-1927)

Lot 213
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Lot 213 | OTTO GUTFREUND (1889-1927)
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OTTO GUTFREUND (1889-1927)
Milenci (Embracing Figures)
stamped with intial, numbered and stamped with foundry mark '3/6 G UR' (on the side of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 26 in. (66 cm.)
Conceived in 1913-1914




Provenance

Art Centrum (Czechoslovak Center of Fine Arts), Prague.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, September 1976.



Literature

P. Cannon-Brookes, Czech Sculpture, 1800-1938, London, 1938, p. 84 (another cast illustrated, p. 85, fig. 128; dated 1912-1913).
J. Císařovský, Otto Gutfreund, Prague, 1962, no. 65 (titled Objímající se postavy).
M. Lamač, Modern Czech Painting, 1907-1917, Prague, 1953, p. 6, no. 43 (original plaster model illustrated; dated 1912-1913).
J. Setlík, ed., Otto Gutfreund: Zázemí tvorby, Prague, 1989, p. 325, no. 171 (patinated blue-toned plaster version illustrated in color; titled Skupina (Milenci; Objímající se postavy)).
M. Lamač, Cubisme Tchèque, Paris, 1992, p. 107 (original plaster model illustrated; dated 1912-191).
Otto Gutfreund, exh. cat., National Gallery, Prague, 1996, no. 89 (another cast illustrated, pl. 48).
S.A. Mansbach, Modern Art in Eastern Europe, From Baltic to the Balkans, ca. 1890-1939, Cambridge, 1999, p. 31 (another cast illustrated, fig. 36).
J. Setlík, Otto Gutfreund: Cesta ke kubismu, Prague, 2012, p. 121 (patinated blue-toned plaster version illustrated in color, p. 120; titled Milenci (Objímající se postavy)).



Exhibited

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Czech Art in the Velvet Revolution, December 1990-April 1991, p. 44 (illustrated; dated 1912-1913).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Forms in Space: 20th Century Sculpture, March-May 1999, p. 91 (illustrated, p. 73).
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