KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)

Lot 508
29.06.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 508 | KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)
Valeur estimée
£ 40 000 – 60 000
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945)

Liebesgruppe

signed and numbered 'KoLLwitz 2⁄5' (on the lower reverse), and stamped 'MODERN ART F.DRY. N.Y.' (reverse lower edge)

bronze with brown patina

height: 28 1⁄2 in. (72.4 cm.)

Conceived in 1913-1915; this bronze cast in 1958 by the Modern Art Foundry





Provenance

Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, by 1965.

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner.



Literature

W. Timm, Käthe Kollwitz, Berlin, 1974, no. 14 (another cast illustrated).

A. Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die Plastik Werkverzeichnis, Cologne, 2016, no. 13, pp. 156-172, (other casts illustrated pp. 157-159 & 171)

A. Seeler, Käthe Kollwitz, Die Plastik Werkverzeichnis Onlinekatalog, Cologne, 2019, no. 13-I.B., pp. 84-95 (another cast illustrated , p. 84).



Exhibited

Caracas, Museo De Bellas Artes, Arte Aleman en Venezuela, June - August 1979, no. 100.



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Post lot text

Dr. Annette Seeler, who permanently updates the 2016 published catalog raisonné of the sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz (latest version of the supplementary online catalog of 2019), is, after examination of photos and other relevant material, of the opinion that the present sculpture is a 1958 cast from the original model, which is today in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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